Briefing: Parliamentary scrutiny of the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (February 2024) Baby Milk Action and IBFAN join UK NGOs in calling on the Government to guarantee time for a debate on a substantive…
Peter Braback on what children say and why firms should stay out of Politics….
“The biggest mistake is to take accusations personally. This was seen in the baby milk case, when the then CEO Arthur Fürer, a man with high values, took the slogan «Nestlé kills babies» personally and filed a lawsuit against the…
Why Multi Stakeholder Partnerships are problematic
Why Multi Stakeholder Partnerships are so problematic The need for sound information on infant and young child feeding is at the heart of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the 20 World Health Assembly Resolutions that have…
Committee on World Food Security (CFS)
Committee on World Food Security The risks of Multi-stakeholderism, Committee on Food Security, Rome The Code and other safeguards threatened by UN Voluntary Guidelines on Food Will the Food Systems Summit protect human rights and breastfeeding – part of…
WPHN Congress: has the Decade of Nutrition delivered?
World Public Health Nutrition Association Congress 10-13 June 2024, University of Westminster, London Questioning the Solutions: has the Decade of Nutrition delivered? https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/6be91456-4a49-4a73-9acc-08ee203a9746/summary The World Public Health Nutrition Congress 2024 is being held one year before the end of the…
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Irish stories December 2023 Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 We must close the loophole that facilitates misleading online ads for baby formula A new Bill making its way through the Dáil offers an historic chance to end baby…
Family challenge formula milk firm after baby’s illness
By Michele Paduano BBC Midlands health correspondent The parents of a baby who had hospital treatment say he became ill after being fed formula milk from batches which have been recalled by its maker. A doctor told the family the…
IBFAN Codex Press Releases and comments
Codex Press Releases and comments over the years What is Codex and why does IBFAN attend? Codex is a joint United Nations body created in 1963 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the FAO to develop food standards, guidelines…