By Sandee LaMotte, CNN

(CNN) — Operation Stork Speed is underway.

Announced in mid-March by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the initiative charges the US Food and Drug Administration with leading the first comprehensive update and review of infant formula nutrients since 1998.

“We’re going to make American infant formula the gold standard for the world,” Kennedy said in an Instagram post about the initiative.

The update on formula is long past due, said Dr. Thomas Brenna, a professor of pediatrics, chemistry and human nutrition at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Brenna is a member of the new FDA review panel on infant formula that met in Washington on Wednesday. The group has met once online, and this was the first in-per

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