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all infants, including those who are exclusively breast-fed, may need vitamin D supplementation until they start drinking at least 17 US fluid ounces (500 ml) of vitamin D-fortified milk or formula a day.
This misstates AAP guidance. The AAP-linked NIH guidance says supplementation can stop only when an infant is taking about 4 cups/day of fortified formula—roughly 32 fl oz (about 1 liter), not 17 fl oz (500 mL).
Full reasoning
This sentence attributes a specific cutoff to the American Academy of Pediatrics, but the amount given is too low.
The NIH's NICHD page summarizing current AAP guidance states that infants need 400 IU/day of vitamin D beginning in the first days after birth, and that if an infant is weaned to vitamin-D fortified formula, extra supplementation is no longer necessary only when the infant "consumes at least 4 cups per day." Four cups is 32 US fluid ounces (about 946 mL / ~1 liter), not 17 US fluid ounces (500 mL).
So the article understates the AAP cutoff by nearly half. A separate CDC page is consistent with this overall framework: breastfed or mixed-fed infants need 400 IU/day, while formula-fed infants generally do not need extra supplementation because formula is fortified.
In short: the article's attribution to the AAP is inaccurate because the AAP-linked U.S. guidance uses a threshold of about 1 liter / 32 oz per day, not 500 mL / 17 oz per day.
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- Do breastfed infants need other nutrition? | NICHD - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
"The current American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)-recommended daily vitamin D intake is 400 IU per day for all infants and children... If an infant is weaned to a vitamin D-fortified infant formula and consumes at least 4 cups per day, then additional supplementation with vitamin D is not necessary."
- Vitamin D | Infant and Toddler Nutrition | CDC
"Babies who are fed only breast milk or who receive both breast milk and infant formula need to have a supplement with 400 IU of vitamin D every day."