The Trial of a New Infant Formula in Healthy Term Chinese Infants

Inclusion criteria

• ✓. Evidence of personally signed and dated informed consent indicating that the infant's both parents/legally acceptable representative(s) (LAR(s)), as per local regulation, have been informed of all pertinent aspects of the study.
• ✓. Parents/LAR(s) of infants have reached the legal age of majority in China.
• ✓. Parents/LAR(s) of infants are willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, and the requirements of the study protocol and can be contacted directly by telephone throughout the study.
• ✓. At enrollment visit, infant post-natal age is ≤14 days (date of birth = day 0)
• ✓. Healthy term infant (≥37 weeks of gestation).
• ✓. Infant birth weight was ≥2500g and ≤4000g.
• ✓. For formula-fed groups, infant is exclusively consuming and tolerating a cow' s milk infant formula since at least 3 days prior to enrollment. Its parents/LAR(s) have independently elected not to breastfeed.
• ✓. For the breastfed REFERENCE group, infant has been exclusively consuming breastmilk since birth (small amounts of other feedings allowed during the first three days of life before breastfeeding is well-established), and its parents/LAR(s) have made the decision to continue exclusively breastfeeding until at least 4 months of age.