WIC and the Retail Price of Infant Formula

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英文名称：

WIC and the Retail Price of Infant Formula

作者：

Victor Oliveira; Mark Prell; David Smallwood; Elizabeth Frazão

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46808

关键词：

WIC program;  cost-containment;  food-item restrictions;  vendor restrictions;  manufacturers rebates;  food package costs;  Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women;  Infants;  and Children;  child nutrition;  FANRP;  food assistance; 

年份：

2004

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

106 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Rebates from infant formula manufacturers to State agencies that administer the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) support over one-quarter of all WIC participants. However, concerns have been raised that WIC and its infant formula rebate program may significantly affect the infant formula prices faced by non-WIC consumers. This report presents findings from the most comprehensive national study of infant formula prices at the retail level. For a given set of wholesale prices, WIC and its infant formula rebate program resulted in modest increases in the supermarket price of infant formula, especially in States with a high percentage of WIC formula-fed infants. However, lower priced infant formulas are available to non-WIC consumers in most areas of the country, and the number of these lower priced alternatives is increasing over time.