A report on baby foods speaks about the introduction of salmon in its aisle, which already had beef, chicken, lambs and eggs. Reports provide that the manufacture of seafood baby products is undertaken by the University of Alaska Fisheries Industrial Technology Center at Kodiak and funded by the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation. FITC director, Dr. Scott Smiley explains about the scope and range of salmon baby-food products in his own words:
Starting last year we began developing two prototype products – a pate form for infants and a chunk style food for toddlers made from pink and/or sockeye salmon, with or without fish oil additives. We may also use ground up salmon bone as a source for organic calcium.
Facts provide that salmon baby-food products will be seen in supermarket shelves within two or three years. The report claims to meet the nutritional standards of baby foods by keeping the salmon 100 percent natural, in order to deliver the minimum Omega3 fatty acids to the babies and toddlers. The fish produce intends to take its product across the bias of parents against seafood products and make it a healthful product for the children and a perspective product for the baby food companies. To quote AFDF director Bob Pawlowski:
We want to show them that we have the most healthful, all natural salmon in the world with no bio-accumulation issues of contaminants or impurities. We will try and convince them that we can produce it and they can distribute it.
This move by the Fisheries Development Foundation targets the market for Omega3 rich products and their attempts to deliver it in its most natural form for the babies can lead the food ingredient in a new direction with more reformulated varieties of salmon based foods for kids.
