Product Data Sheet

Product data sheet

ANT G - INF RAD ILK E Q M U H A S L E IT R Y F ® YEARS OF Essential Start YCF 75 EXPERIENCE

F U L L O L R T CH N AIN CO & PROCESS

Essential® Start YCF is a semi-finished product intended for the production of young child formulas. For more than 75 years, we’ve been focused to offer children a great start in life. That believe inspires us to create solutions trusted globally for nourishing the most vulnerable members of society. Early life nutrition demands purity and safety. The kind that comes from dedication, end-to-end knowledge of manufacturing processes and regulatory standards. As we own the entire product chain, we can source the freshest milk possible from our own farms where cows graze on lush Dutch meadows. Then process it with an unbeatable level of quality assurance, guaranteeing full infant grade quality as every child has the right to grow up healthy.

Product characteristics Packaging Essential® Start YCF is a spray dried semi-finished product Essential® Start YCF is packed in a multi-layered paper bag produced from our own high-quality fresh bovine milk. with a polyethylene inner liner and a net content of 25kg. The product contains most of the essential nutrients for The paper bags are palletized and wrapped yielding units children from age 1 onwards as well as high-quality milk of 1,000kg. The product is also available in big bags proteins. This product contains only natural milk sugars. (800kg). The blend of vegetable oils delivers a balanced ratio of linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid (ratio 7.3). The palm oil is Shelf life and storage conditions highly purified and derived from sustainable sources Essential® Start YCF is best stored in original unopened (certified by RSPO). packaging under clean, cool and dry conditions, away from direct sunlight and separated from strongly odorous Essential® Start YCF is heat-stable and has excellent materials. Essential® Start YCF has a shelf life of 9 months solubility properties. The powder is light creamy white, (25kg bags). free flowing with a good dispersibility. The taste can be characterized as slightly milky. List of ingredients Skimmed milk, vegetable oils (palm oil, canola oil Application (low erucic acid type), palm kernel oil, sunflower oil), Essential® Start YCF is a semi-finished product that is used lactose, sodium L-ascorbate, emulsifier (lecithin), worldwide for the production of young child formulas. This taurine, meso-inositol, choline chloride, DL a-tocopheryl semi-finished product is a perfect start for dry blending acetate, L-Ascorbyl palmitate, nicotinamide, calcium final young child formulas as it contains most of the D-pantothenate, thiamin hydrochloride, retinyl-acetate, essential nutrients. Essential® Start YCF is suitable for the pyridoxine hydrochloride, beta-carotene, folic acid, production of young child formulas in accordance with the phytomenadione, D-biotin, cholecalciferol. compositional requirements of China and Codex. Please feel free to inquire about local compliance requirements.

This information is intended for industrial customers only and not intended for consumers. ® Essential Start YCF Product data sheet

Nutritional (g/100g) Vitamins Energy **490 kcal Vitamin A 615 ug/RE/100g Total Protein Nx6.38 27.5 Retinol 540 ug/100g Total fat 25.5 Vitamin D3 11 ug/100g Linoleic acid 3.145 Vitamin E 12 mg/100g A-linolenic acid 0.43 Vitamin K1 40 ug/100g Total carbohydrate 38.1 Vitamin B1 870 ug/100g Sugars 38.1 Vitamin B2 *790 ug/100g Lactose 38.1 Niacin 4.3 mg/100g Vitamin B6 870 ug/100g Minerals Folic acid 130 ug/100g Calcium 900 mg/100g Pantothenic acid 3.5 mg/100g Phosphorus 735 mg/100g Vitamin B12 *2.0 ug/100g Ratio Ca/P 1.2 Biotin 23 ug/100g Sodium *290 mg/100g Vitamin C 180 mg/100g Potassium *1150 mg/100g Choline 170 mg/100g Chloride *690 mg/100g Taurine 90 mg/100g Magnesium *77 mg/100g Inositol 120 mg/100g Zinc *2.8 mg/100g Iodine *115 ug/100g Microbiological Manganese 17 ug/100g Total plate count 30°C cfu/g n=5, c=2, m=3.000, M=10.000

Selenium 12 ug/100g Bacillus cereus spores and cfu/g n=5, c=1, m=100, M=1.000 vegetative cells

Chemical Yeasts and moulds cfu/g n=5, c=2, m=10, M=100 Insolubility index Max. 0.5ml Sulphite red. Clostridia1 cfu/g n=5, c=2, m=30, M=100 Scorched particles Max. disc A Clostridium perfringens 1g n=5, c=0, m=0, M=0 Bulk density 190-210 cm3/100g Coagulase-positive staphylococci 3x1g n=5, c=5, m=0/3, M=1/3 pH 6.7-7.3 Enterobacteriaceae 3x1g n=5, c=2, m=0/3, M=1/3 Moisture < 3% E. coli2 10g n=5, c=0, m=0, M=0 Salmonella3 25g n=60, c=0, m=0, M=0

References * Typical value. ** According to EU legislation (EU/1169/2011). 1. If results ‘Sulphite red. Clostridia/g’ are within specification, it is allowed to skip ‘Clostridium perfringens (1g)’. 2. If all samples are negative on ‘Enterobacteriaceae (10x10g)’, it is allowed to skip ‘E. coli (10g)’. 3. For production locations of FrieslandCampina, automatic sampling must be applied: n>100 (Total sample size min. 1500 gram).

Potential consumer benefits are not to be considered as health claims. They should be considered as potential leads that might be developed into health claims complying with the local legal requirements. The information contained herein is, to the best of our knowledge, correct. The data outlined and the statements are intended only as a source of information. No warranties, expressed or implied, are made. On the basis of this information it is suggested that you evaluate the product on a laboratory scale prior to use in a finished product. The information contained herein should not be construed as permission for violation of patent right.

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