What analyses are carried out on your infant milks?Updated 3 days ago

At Biostime & Inostime, quality is at the heart of our priority in order to guarantee you high-quality formulas that meet your baby's nutritional needs*.

To ensure this quality, we implement very strict analysis protocols that go beyond applicable regulatory requirements.

But what are these analyses? We'll tell you everything!

First, let's talk about the regulations surrounding infant milk.

Infant milks are regulated in France and Europe by Regulations (EU) 609/2013 and (EU) 2016/127, which set out composition criteria and authorized communication methods. These regulatory requirements were themselves developed based on an opinion from the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), which takes into account the latest available scientific studies and is carried out according to guidelines established by recognized expert committees.

When infant milks are produced organically, additional regulatory requirements apply to the composition, production, processing, distribution, import, control and labelling of these products. These are detailed in particular in Regulations (EU) 2018/848 and (EU) 2021/1165 and must be applied because the finished products can only be marketed if they meet all the requirements incumbent on each link in the food chain: from the field to the point of sale (receipt of food ingredients and packaging materials, during manufacturing, on the finished product and during storage).

What are the mandatory analyses?

These are analyses that determine whether a batch or ingredient can be placed on the market or used in production. If one of them does not comply with the specifications and regulatory requirements, the batch or ingredient is rejected.

• All our batches of infant milk are subject to systematic and regular analyses which are final:
• nutritional analyses such as protein, vitamin or mineral content;
• microbiological analyses to guarantee the health quality of our products;
• analyses of contaminant residues such as heavy metals or mycotoxins.

In addition to these systematic analyses, we carry out analyses according to a pre-defined annual control plan, which is in addition to the one applied by our production partner. These mainly involve analyses relating to the search for contaminant residues such as pesticides, perchlorates, dioxins and PCBs.

Our production partner has a COFRAC-ISO 17025 accredited quality control laboratory (scope available at www.cofrac.fr). This accreditation, rarely obtained by an infant milk control laboratory, guarantees the laboratory's high level of technical expertise, and above all the reliability of its analytical results, allowing us to rigorously and precisely control all stages of manufacturing of our finished products to guarantee their total safety.

In total, more than 250 quality analyses and 3,000 checks are carried out on average to manufacture a batch of Biostime or Inostime infant milk powder, from the reception of the ingredients, packaging and collection of the milk from the farms to the dispatch of the finished products.

At Biostime & Inostime, we go beyond regulations.

In parallel and to go further, despite the greater confidence we place in the analyses and controls carried out by our partner on our products and which are an integral part of its health control plan, we also have additional control plans and monitoring plans that are just as strict and which even go beyond the analyses required of us by regulations. These analyses are carried out by accredited and independent external laboratories.

In conclusion

Thanks to our quality expertise, Biostime and Inostime infant formulas are developed to meet regulatory requirements and beyond, because the safety of little ones is and will always remain at the heart of our priorities.

Below is an example of analyses implemented as part of our annual control plans carried out in an independent external laboratory.
View the analyses here

We remain at your disposal via our contact form to answer your questions.

*In accordance with current regulations