The infantile food of diversification answers two specific requirements: an optimum security and a quality, as well as the satisfaction of the nutritional needs of this age, defined by the experts and recommendations of learnt Societies (balance of nutriments, fair doses in proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, sadium, minerals and vitamins).

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Food intended for the new-born baby and for the preschooler is subjected to the same basic regulation as the common food, but more have to meet requirements there of a specific regulation which takes into account the particular nutritional needs of this age and imposes health norms of security more strict than those defined for other food regulation texts which govern the food of childhood are worked out at three levels.

In the international echelon, under the aegis of the WHO and of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), the Pharmacopoeia Alimentarius defines food norms. The first worldwide norms relating to preparations for new-born baby date of 1981.

The European harmonisation relating to this food was later (1989). Directives emanate from the General management " Sant Consommateurs " , which leans on jobs of the scientific Committee of the human eating of FRANCE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY, three ministries (Health, Agriculture, Economy and Finances) prepares texts by blending in on the opinions of several scientific authorities on which collaborate nutritionists, pediatricians, toxicologists, biochemists

The specificity of the feeding of the preschooler was admitted by the French authorities twenty-five years ago, with publication, in 1976 and 1978, of orders specifying the regulatory framework of milk for babies and food adapted to childhood.

The valuation of health and nutritional risks of food is within the province of the French Agency of health security of food (AFSSA), set up in 1999.