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Advertisement for these Mead Johnson baby products: Enfamil, Nutramigen, ProSobee, and various baby vitamin drops. "Introduced in 1959, Enfamil was Mead Johnson�s first routine formula designed to be patterned after the nutritional composition of breast milk." Mead Johnson developed Nutramigen in 1942 to cater to the needs of infants with allergies to cow�s milk protein and was the first protein-hydrolysate infant formula available in the United States. Nutramigen today is the most widely studied formula for the dietary management of allergic manifestations." ProSobee, the first infant formula in the United States with soy protein isolated from whole soy flour, was introduced for infants with difficulty tolerating routine milk-based infant formula." Mead Johnson introduced the first line of water-soluble paediatric vitamins, called Vi-Sols. [in the 1960s] Today they remain the leading physicians-recommended paediatric vitamins. (http://www.meadjohnson.com/brands/our-brand) Edward Mead Johnson, part of the family that founded Johnson & Johnson, began his own firm in 1905 in New Jersey. The company moved to Evansville, Indiana in 1915 in an effort to be closer to the source of the agricultural goods used in its infant nutritional products.