Translation of "Nourrisson à petit poids de naissance " (French → English) :

According to the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), low birth weight infants should be fed mother’s milk.

'formula intended for low-birth-weight and pre-term infants' means a food specifically developed to meet the medically-determined nutrient requirements of infants who are born prematurely or at a low birth weight; [Am. 43]

(ha) 'Formula intended for low birth weight and pre-term infants' means a food specifically developed to meet the medically-determined nutrient requirements of infants who are born prematurely or at a low birth weight.

Nonetheless, low-birth-weight and pre-term infants often have special nutritional requirements which cannot be met by the mother's own milk or standard infant formulae.

In that context, they suggest to strengthen the current legislation and to include in a positive list at least the following groups of products: 'Foods for infants and young children up to the age of three - including Low Birth Weight Formula'; 'Hospital Discharge Formula'; 'Breast Milk Fortifier and Growing Up Milks'; 'Foods for pregnant and lactating women'; 'Foods for the elderly in good health'; ‘Foods for weight management’; ‘Foods for special medical purposes’; ‘Foods for sportspeople’; ‘Dietary foods for people with gluten intolerance’; ‘Lactose-free foods’.

Furthermore, environmental exposures are associated with multiple health effects: exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, low birth weight, reduced lung function, asthma, lower respiratory illness and middle ear infection.