It’s Time to Put Infant Health Over Corporate Wealth Take action today to hold companies accountable for unethical marketing tactics aimed at parents. If you are a parent, it’s a story that you are probably familiar with: emotionally appealing...
READ MOREFDA Issues Guidance for the Labeling of Infant Formula The National Law Review On the heels of recently released draft guidance concerning substantiation for infant formula structure/function claims, FDA has issued guidance regarding the labeling...
READ MOREThis is what happens to half of Australia’s baby formula The Washington Post Rachel Premack Australian formula is much cheaper than the Chinese product. Chinese moms also trust it more. As a result, 27 percent of Chinese say they’ve...
READ MOREFormula marketers accused of skating laws that encourage breastfeeding The Phnom Penh Post Erin Handley and Kong Meta Between contractions, a woman whom Veasna* had never met pressed two products into her hands as she lay in her hospital bed. The...
READ MOREAs UN leads global efforts to promote breastfeeding, national laws defeat the purpose First Post Shreerupa Mitra-Jha The World Breastfeeding Week observed last week focused primarily on generating awareness among mothers on the huge benefits of...
READ MOREBreastfeeding gaps between white, black, and Hispanic mothers in the US Science Daily Chapman University has published research on how breastfeeding rates differ among white, black and Hispanic mothers. The study looked to see if ethnic and...
READ MOREBid to ban ‘aggressive marketing’ of infant milk formula fails The Sidney Morning Herald Stephanie Nebehay International health officials stopped short on Friday of fully endorsing World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines to end the...
READ MOREResearchers find nanoparticles in 6 of 6 U.S. baby formulas tested Food Safety News Cookson Beecher Recent research has detected potentially harmful nanoparticles in six out of six popular infant formulas tested. Not surprisingly, this has...
READ MORESuccessful WHO Code Day of Action! On May 21, 2016, the 35th anniversary of the World Health Organization (WHO) Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, activists across the world took action to protect parents and babies from predatory...
READ MOREMost countries lack adequate laws to protect and promote breastfeeding UN News Centre Laws to protect breastfeeding against the growing multi-billion-dollar breast-milk substitute business are inadequate in most countries, exposing small children...
READ MOREWhat Do Mothers Say About Receiving Industry-Sponsored Formula Samples? We asked recent moms about their experience of receiving infant formula marketing materials in healthcare facilities. Here’s what they had to say: “I was angry and...
READ MOREWho makes Infant Formula? The infant formula industry is Big Business. Wondering what else infant formula manufacturers produce? Check out the products made by the three largest producers of infant formula in the U.S. (Click on the links below to...
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