INFANT Act of 2023

HR 3540, the INFANT Act of 2023, amends the WIC infant formula contracting rules under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. It changes the process for selecting formula manufacturers by requiring the Secretary or State agencies to choose two manufacturers through competitive bidding, designating one as the "primary manufacturer" and the other as the "secondary manufacturer." This directly affects the WIC program, which provides nutrition assistance to low-income pregnant women, infants, and children, and the infant formula manufacturers supplying the program. The key provision replaces all references to "primary" with "manufacturer" in the contracting rules to clarify the dual-supplier structure.