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Infantile milks, sold to young parents to replace breastfeeding, are on the whole badly tested and are therefore likely to be accompanied by misleading affirmations in matters of nutrition, warns Thursday, October 14, a study published in the British Medical Journal.

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These substitutes, for example made from cow's milk proteins, represent an increasingly carrier market in the world.They promise to offer infants a food equivalent to her mother's milk.Infantile milk producers must therefore systematically conduct clinical trials which aim to prove that their product nourishes the baby sufficiently well.But "(these) trials are not reliable," conclude the authors of a study published in the BMJ.

This has examined the course of 125 tests conducted since 2015.For four -fifths of them, there are enough shortcomings to doubt their conclusions.For example, multiple trials do not specify before their unfolding which must be evaluated.To be credible, a good clinical trial must, on the contrary, be clear from the start about its objective, otherwise the researcher may be tempted to retain only what suits him.Another problem, some trials arbitrarily exclude infants from the tested group.This lets fear a distorted comparison.

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In the end, "the conclusions are almost always favorable", underline the authors, who judge that the producers are involved too closely in the studies, at the risk of a lack of independence.They also believe that trials are lacking in safeguards to ensure that infants tested do not run for risk, especially undernutrition.It is necessary to "change significantly how the tests (...) are carried out and then are the subject of publications, in order to (...) that consumers do not undergo misleading information, ”concludes the study.