An Exploratory Trial in Hong Kong to Explore the Effect of a New Formula

An Exploratory, Randomised, Open Label, Controlled, Multicentre Clinical Trial in Hong Kong to Explore the Effect of a New Nutritional Formula on Body Composition and Other Health Outcomes in Early Life.

This is an exploratory study with the aim to gain insight and potentially generate hypotheses on health benefits of feeding with study product. This study explores in healthy subjects the effect of feeding with the test product compared to the control product in early life.

• Key exploratory objective is to find an effect on body composition.
• Other exploratory objectives are to find an effect on growth parameters.
• Safety and tolerance and the user experience will be investigated.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy, singleton, term born infants.
• Infants aged 6 months(± 2 weeks) at enrolment.
• Infants fed with formula (with or without additional weaning foods or drinks) before enrolment.
• Written informed consent (IC) from parent(s) and/or legally acceptable representative(s) aged ≥18 years at enrolment.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Infants who require a special diet other than Formula with intact cow's milk protein.
• Infants known or suspected to have cow's milk, fish protein, and/or soy allergy and/or lactose intolerance.
• Infants with current or previous illnesses/conditions and/or known or suspected congenital diseases or malformations which could interfere with the study outcomes, as per investigator's clinical judgement.
• Infants with previous, current, or intended participation in any other clinical study involving investigational or marketed products.
• Incapability of infants' parents and/or legally acceptable representative(s) to comply with study protocol as per the judgement of the investigator or investigator's uncertainty about the willingness or ability of parents legally acceptable representative(s) to comply with the protocol requirements.
• Employees and/or infants/family members or relatives of employees of Danone Nutricia, the participating sites, or any other nutrition company that develops Infant, Follow On or Young Child formulae.