Why have the rules changed in 3 years?

[dusty_sheep]

There was research and then guidelines from the World Health Organisation saying formula milk is not sterile and must be made with water over 70+ (which means left to cool in the kettle for no more than 30 mins) to kill any bugs in the formula and the UK adopted it.

But baby food is supposed to be free of any bugs, more than any other food, isn't it?

Also I wonder if adding 70+ water, doesn't kill that all the vitamins in the formula as well? (Not sure if you are talking about degrees celsius here, or Fahrenheit?)

The WHO btw. get lots of money from companies who basically want to sell their products. Considering that, not everything the recommend by the WHO is actually recommended to keep folks healhy. I seriously doubt they would publish researches that don't agree with the sponsor.

We have very good tap water here, still it is recommended to boil the water, then let it cool down and only then add the formula. But while it is not recommended to prepare bottles, we sometimes did it. Especially before night, and when I had to go somewhere. But we only fed like one or two bottles a day because I mostly used to formula to get a rest from breastfeeding.

So I guess that it doesn't count really when I say that my baby girl has only recently had her first stomach bug, and she's 8 months old now.

ETA: to me the stricter rules sound like they want people to waste more formular and therefore have to buy more. But yeah...

 

[bubbles123]

There was research and then guidelines from the World Health Organisation saying formula milk is not sterile and must be made with water over 70+ (which means left to cool in the kettle for no more than 30 mins) to kill any bugs in the formula and the UK adopted it.

But baby food is supposed to be free of any bugs, more than any other food, isn't it?

Also I wonder if adding 70+ water, doesn't kill that all the vitamins in the formula as well? (Not sure if you are talking about degrees celsius here, or Fahrenheit?)

The WHO btw. get lots of money from companies who basically want to sell their products. Considering that, not everything the recommend by the WHO is actually recommended to keep folks healhy. I seriously doubt they would publish researches that don't agree with the sponsor.

We have very good tap water here, still it is recommended to boil the water, then let it cool down and only then add the formula. But while it is not recommended to prepare bottles, we sometimes did it. Especially before night, and when I had to go somewhere. But we only fed like one or two bottles a day because I mostly used to formula to get a rest from breastfeeding.

So I guess that it doesn't count really when I say that my baby girl has only recently had her first stomach bug, and she's 8 months old now.

ETA: to me the stricter rules sound like they want people to waste more formular and therefore have to buy more. But yeah...

Look at what's happened recently with Similac in the USA... bugs (literally!) in the formula have made babies very ill, a lady on this board found a live flour weavil in a tub of Cow and Gate in the UK, the scandal in China a few years back with chemicals in baby formula... Formula is most definitely not sterile and can have nasty bugs in it... Hence the new recommendations about making formula with hot water. The risks are very small, sure but they are there.
Your right about too hot water killing off nutrients...that's why you don't make formula with boiling water, but rather leave it to cool for 30 minutes. I'm not sure what you mean about WHO getting money from companies to sell their products... I doubt WHO are getting money from formula companies as these rules make life much more difficult for formula manufacturers (and users!) and WHO are very anti formula feeding. I suppose you cold argue they are trying to make life more difficult for FF'ers to promote BF'ing though but BF'ing doesn't sell any products....
Boiling the water has nothing to do with the water quality! It's so the water is hot enough to kill the bugs in the formula.
I don't know what country you are in, if you are not in the UK then your rules may well be different, so just follow your local rules. The OP just asked why the rules in the UK have changed so I said why. How you choose to make your formula is up to you

 

[Janidog]

I heat the water and wait 15mins, put in bottle then straight away i add the forumla, put the bottle in to a pot of cold water to cool it down quicker and then i store in the fridge and microwave it when i need it

 

[rainbowchild]

its so bloody confusing!