Glutamic acid intake by formula-fed infants: are acceptable daily intakes appropriate?

"Declarations Ethics approvalThe trial was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, approved by the Office of Regulatory Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board. Written informed consent was obtained from each mother prior to study entry. Competing interestsNone. Competing interests None."

"Funding The research was supported by grants R01HD072307 and R03HD094908 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose."

"Healthy term infants with no family history of atopy and whose mothers decided to exclusively formula feed were randomized to be fed either CMF (Enfamil™, Mead Johnson Nutrition; n = 59) or EHF (Nutramigen™, Mead Johnson Nutrition; n = 54) to investigate the effect of infant formula composition on growth and energy balance from the age of 0.5 to 12.5 months []. The formulas were isocaloric (67.7 kcal/100 ml) and provided gratis to the family throughout the trial. The trial was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, approved by the Office of Regulatory Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board and registered online at clinicaltrials.gov prior to its start (NCT01700205; 2012–2016). Written informed consent was obtained from each mother prior to study entry."