baby foodmeans food intended to fulfil the particular requirements of infants in good health while they are being weaned, and of young children in good health as a supplement to their diet and/or for their progressive adaptation to ordinary food, excluding:
follow-on formulameans food intended for use by infants when appropriate complementary feeding is introduced and which constitutes the principal liquid element in a progressively diversified diet of such infants;
food for special medical purposesmeans food specially processed or formulated and intended for the dietary management of patients, including infants, to be used under medical supervision;
infantmeans a child under the age of 12 months;
infant formulameans food intended for use by infants during the first months of life and satisfying by itself the nutritional requirements of such infants until the introduction of appropriate complementary feeding;
total diet replacement for weight controlmeans food specially formulated for use in energy restricted diets for weight reduction which, when used as instructed by the food business operator, replaces the whole daily diet.
young childmeans a child aged between one and three years;