The convenience and wide availability of many commercial baby foods have made it quite acceptable to rely on packaged brands. However, many parents nowadays are choosing to prepare baby food at home.

Under the new guidelines, baby food manufacturers should have ... ready-to-eat foods such as purees, as well as semi-prepared foods such as dry infant cereals,” the FDA said in a statement.

Dried cereals, milk formula, and prepared baby food are the major baby food products available in the market. Rapidly changing economic trends in emerging markets of Asia-Pacific and Europe ...