Despite the best efforts of dietician Sandra Hood and The Vegan Society who have been talking to Cow Gate, SMA and The Department of Health, there currently is no vegan infant formula on sale since Heinz discontinued their Nurture Soya last month. Other soya formulas such as Cow Gate’s Infasoy and SMA’s Wysoy contain vitamin D taken from sheep’s wool (lanolin). To find out more, or ask these companies to produce a formula suitable for vegan babies' please phone:

• Heinz Baby Careline 0800 212991
• Cow Gate Careline 08457 623 623
• SMA Careline 0800 0818 180

or use these contact forms:

The first food for a vegan baby should ideally be breast milk. ... It is important that ordinary soya milk should not substituted for soya infant formula as it does not contain the proper ratio of protein, fat, carbohydrate, nor the vitamins and minerals required to be used as a sole food. ... Please see our extensive on-line advice about Vegan Parenting for more details.