Click here to download our UK Monitoring Report, August 2016 (PDF), updated following the vote for the UK to leave the European Union. The first version of this UK Monitoring Report was prepared for the UN Committee on the Rights…
Formula promotion in breach of regulations increases in the UK while Trading Standards Institute highlights cuts to consumer protection
Baby Milk Action press release 16 August 2016 Baby Milk Action is receiving many more reports of retailers in the UK promoting infant formula in breach of formula marketing regulations as Nestlé and Danone step up their competition. This comes as a…
England, NI and Wales: Improvement Notices introduced today to enforce EU formula and baby food marketing rules – companies face criminal charges for non compliance
Baby Milk Action press release 20 July 2016 The UK Government and devolved authorities have today introduced Statutory Instruments updating formula and baby food marketing laws in line with new EU regulations. Although the Regulations fall far short of international minimum standards repeatedly…
Holding Nestle to account
Nestlé Chairman confirms formula marketing violations are Nestlé policy Baby Milk Action attends Nestlé shareholder meetings, in recent years alongside partners from IBFAN-GIFA. We raise ongoing violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions…
Brexit and what it means for our work protecting infant and young child health
Click here to download this briefing as a pdf file. The UK has now voted in the referendum on its membership of the European Union (EU). There are pros and cons to any decision and one so momentous for the…
New European Union regulations
Baby food regulations: 6-months recommendation and less sugar Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted on 19 January 2016 (393 votes in favour, 305 votes against) to reject draft EU rules on baby food, which would have allowed baby foods…
Update 47 – news and analysis in 2016
News is changing and so is Baby Milk Action’s Update newsletter. News is now available when you want it – not when producers are ready to send it to you. Now our Update newsletter is moving online. In the distant past, we…