Arla Foods announced about the start of the new research aimed to develop infant formula more closely resembling mothers’ milk.

To make this research possible, the Danish Council for Strategic Research has granted DKK 20 million to University scientists which will develop ways to produce an ingredient naturally present in human breast milk, namely “oligosaccharides”. As for Arla Foods, it will be an industrial partner of the research with Danisco.

According to Preben Bodstrup Rasmussen, R&D Manager for Child Nutrition at Arla Foods, “this research is a key to understanding the development of the immune system in newborn infants”.

So, the possibility to develop and manufacture such substances can lead to new and higher standards for commercial infant formula.



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