Consultation: Draft Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants (0 to 6 months) guidelines

Current status: Open

Opened on August 19, 2025 and will close for consultation on October 27, 2025

About this consultation

The Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants guidelines help health professionals give consistent information on feeding infants, by providing:

• evidence-based recommendations
• a foundation for parent and caregiver resources

As part of our revision process, we're seeking comments on the draft guidelines for infant nutrition from birth to 6 months of age. Our objective is to ensure the final guidelines are clear, complete, relevant and useful.

Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants is a joint statement of:

• Health Canada
• Dietitians of Canada
• Indigenous Services Canada
• the Canadian Paediatric Society
• the Public Health Agency of Canada
• Breastfeeding Committee for Canada

Join in: How to participate

Before beginning our online consultation, review the draft Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants (0 to 6 months) guidelines.

Share your ideas online

Complete the questionnaire.

Send us an email

Send an email with your ideas or comments to nutrition@hc-sc.gc.ca

Who is the target of this consultation

We want to hear from:

• health professionals
• First Nations, Inuit and Métis organizations
• provincial, territorial and municipal governments and policy makers
• health professional associations and non-governmental organisations
• other interested parties

Key question for discussion

We want to know if the draft guidelines are clear, complete and relevant for health professionals and policy makers working in infant nutrition.

Related information

Revision of Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants

Contact us

Bureau of Healthy Eating Policy and Promotion
Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada
251 Sir Frederick Banting
Postal Locator 2203E
Ottawa, ON K1A 0K9

Email: nutrition@hc-sc.gc.ca