A baby food giant has admitted putting incorrect advice on packets of milk - which could have led mums to overfeed their children.
Cow & Gate have sold at least 500,000 cartons of the ready-made formula with labels which suggest that parents give their babies 60 per cent more than the Government recommends.
The food company, which sells at least 40,000 cartons a week, is to relabel their products but is meantime refusing to recall the remaining stock off the shelves. Baby nutritionist Sally Child said: "Giving a baby too much milk at the crucial weaning stage can cause serious problems with the child's health."
Worried customer Sabiha Rana, 24, from Leyton, London, said: "It's awful how thousands of mums across the country could be overfeeding their children. It's so dangerous."
Cow & Gate said their aim was to make sense of the transitional period for babies from milk to solids.
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