IBFAN has been exposing the risks of commercial exploitation of emergencies since the early 1980s. We are a founder and active member of the multi-agency Infant feeding in Emergencies Core Group, that was set up in 1999 to ensure coordinated…
Fit for the Future: The 10 Year Health Plan for England Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care by Command of His Majesty. July 2025 The new plan (which now includes several corrections and…
CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES (CCNFSDU) Draft Standard for Foods for Older Infants and Young Children Baby Milk Action attends Codex either as IBFAN, ENCA or sometimes as IACFO. Here are the comments that…
Fourth High-level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of NCDs and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing (HLM4) Following the General Assembly on 9-23 Sept there will be a high level meeting of States…
UK News: Knowsley Council, Parliament: questions, debates… First – Some excellent news from Knowsley Council – who are restricting marketing of health-harming foods, including formulas and baby foods. BBC Today programme Amul Rajan interviews Dr Sarah McNulty of Knowsley Council.…
Following the launch of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative Report last week, Jess Brown-Fuller, Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, led an Adjournment Debate on Infant feeding this evening, Tuesday 1 July 2025 in the UK House of Commons this evening.…
Click HERE for 30-seconds on social media “Mothers are being bombarded by online marketing that makes them doubt their ability to breastfeed. In just one click sound health authority advice is replaced by misleading commercial messages.” IBFAN Statement at the…
Baby formula marketing ‘risking child health’, say campaigners.Nursing Times, 25 June 2025, by Edd Church Formula milk: Overpriced and misleading products are risking child health, say campaigners British Medical Journal BMJ 2025; 389 :r1333. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1333 WBTI Policy press release PRESS…
IBFAN WEBSITEVideo of Side Event WHO webcast. Background Documents. IBFAN interventions Dates EB158 WHA79 Despite a 20% cut in its budget following the USA withdrawal from WHO, Member States made several landmark decisions that should make the world safer…
IBFAN ON GAZA Urgent Action for Gaza 16th May 2025 After more than four decades working to prevent child illness, suffering and death, IBFAN is well aware of the pain that each loss causes. In more than 160…
UK news: Baby Feeding Law Group response to the Competition and Markets Authority BBC Panorama reveals the shocking truth about baby pouches Highlighting important new research on their poor nutritional quality, this programme on BBC Panorama exposed the growing concerns…
Transcript of the Debate Baby Milk Action response 8.4.24 @HLFoodObesity. Mar 27 At 10am on 28 March 2025, a debate on our report ‘Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system’ is scheduled in the House of…
PRESS RELEASE Monday 23rd March 2025 REPORT SHOWS UK MOTHERS ARE BEING LET DOWN UK Health Professionals lack training on infant feeding Findings from the UK’s second World Breasfeeding Trends Initiative assessment What happens when a breastfeeding mother is…
20 Feb 2025 Today, France has passed a new law that will ban PFAS in several products including clothing and cosmetics. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of over 10,000 highly persistent synthetic chemicals often called ‘forever chemicals’, because…
BFLG-UK response to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) infant and follow-on formula market study: 8 April 2025 UK government authority calls for follow-up formula ad ban and generic labelling Press release 14th February 2025 Baby Milk Action/ IBFAN UK…
Press Release Read on IBFAN’s website WHO Member States call for the regulation of Digital marketing of baby foods 10th February 2025 In the face of the budgetary and political crisis following the USA withdrawal from WHO, the 156th…
https://www.competitiontribunal.gov.au/ The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC) has issued a determination in respect of the application for revocation and substitution lodged by the Infant Nutrition Council on 25 March 2024. The Infant Nutrition Council sought authorisation to…
156th WHO Executive Board Meeting Feb 3-11th UPDATE ON THE DIGITAL MARKETING RESOLUTION A Draft Decision Regulating the digital marketing of breast-milksubstitutes proposed by 21 Member States (Armenia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Iraq,…
30 January 2025 The UK Government has responded to many strong recommendations in the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee inquiry report, Recipe for Health: a plan to fix our broken food system. The House of Lords report…
Why WHO is important and why IBFAN is a ‘critical friend’ The USA announced its intention to withdraw from WHO on 20th January As a ‘critical friend’ of WHO for nearly 50 years, we consider this to be worrying, not…
STOP Press STOP PRESS: Following the criticism Tesco drops its Danone sponsored scheme. Following criticism from First Steps Nutrition Trust, Baby Feeding Law Group and Baby Milk Action, the supermarket giant Tesco has abandoned its plans to roll out a scheme in…
Financial Times: Donald Trump’s team seeks to Pull out of WHO ‘on Day One’ https://www.ft.com/content/e6061ed5-2703-4b8a-9948-a557aaaf52c2 https://www.actionwh.org/our-mission Action on World Health – Take Back Control Health policies that infringe on national sovereignty must remain under the control of nation states…
Regulation Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk by Heather Vogell Dec. 24 2024 With new rules, Thailand joins three dozen countries that have taken steps to regulate toddler milk ads. The action follows a ProPublica investigation that detailed how the…
47th Codex Alimentarius Commission 25/11/2024 – 30/11/2024 | Geneva, Switzerland Here are some of IBFAN’s statements Agenda Item 5: Labelling Exemptions in Emergencies:IBFAN warned that without extra safeguards, the new Codex Guidelines would open the door to commercial exploitation. A…
Plastic Treaty fails: can Codex change and prioritise human and planetary health? IBFAN interventions at CAC 47 – Video clips Webcasting of all sessions Documentation of CAC47. Participants Draft Report Stop Press: Sidney Morning Herald investigation into the donations and…
IBFAN interventions at CAC 47 – Video clips PHOTOS above all copyright © FAO/Roberto Sciotti Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC47) 25/11/2024 – 30/11/2024 Geneva, Switzerland WEBCAST DRAFT REPORT Participants Codex Executive Committee (CX/EXEC 87) 18 – 22 November 2024…
BMA CMA response Dec 2024. BFLG RESPONSE. Statement from First Steps Nutrition Trust and Baby Feeding Law Group Press release Infant formula: CMA sets out concerns and potential solutions CMA interim report outlines concerns regarding the infant formula market –…
The harm caused by manufacturers of sweet processed baby foods is at last being exposed and prompting calls for transparency and regulation. Researchers from the University of Southern California (31.10.24) have found that cutting sugar in the first 1,000 days…
Codex dithers on sugar and opens door to risky labelling in emergencies. Codex Committee on Food Labelling. CCFL48 27/10/2024 – 01/11/2024 | Quebec City, Canada The WHO/FAO global standards setting body, Codex Alimentarius, met twice in October –in Dresden, Germany…
2015: Bolton, Trump, Johnson – how food standards get lowered “Improper political interference” in US baby foods puts health and scientific integrity at stake . 2018 Conflicts of Interest and US pressure at the Codex meeting in Rome…
Will Codex open the door to exploitation of food aid in emergencies and more greenwashing? IBFAN Press Release Codex Committee on Food Labelling. CCFL48 27/10/2024 – 01/11/2024 | Quebec City, Canada YOU TUBE LINK TO RECORDINGS The 48th Session of…
2024:EU and Switzerland try to tackle sweetness – the UK wary of ‘probiotic’ claims, Codex starts new work on baby foods Codex Nutrition meeting in Germany (CCNFSDU44) LIST OF PARTICIPANTS. FINAL REPORT Dresden, Germany, 2-6th October 2024 (IBFAN website)…
Media coverage: HERE HERE HERE HERE Nestlé am Pranger: Protest in Vevey nach Skandal um Babynahrung – 20 Minuten Nestlé visé par une pétition contre le sucre dans les aliments pour bébés – rts.ch – Economie Sucre dans les…
Compilation of some of the press releases and blogs related to EU legislation – a work in progress! Romania: EU legislation and the protection of child health Blog about Romania March 2017 https://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/11290 UK News: specialised formulas more likely…
Codex PRESS RELEASE IBFAN comments on agenda items 6.2.6.21,8 At the 44th session of the Codex Nutrition meeting in Germany next week (CCNFSDU44) – IBFAN will be once again fighting to protect children from harmful, sweetened, Ultra-Processed, plastic-wrapped products and…
Draft Determination. Application for revocation of AA1000534 and the substitution of authorisation AA1000665 lodged by Infant Nutrition Council Ltd in respect of the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula: Manufacturers and Importers Agreement, and associated guidelines. Authorisation number: AA1000665 Date…
Don’t forget to sign the petition demanding Nestle removes free sugars and sweeteners from baby foods. https://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/43020 The toddler milks with more sugar than a chocolate milkshake – which are putting a THIRD of tots at risk of obesity and…
Three new WHO resources support WHO’s recommendation (1) that, in order to promote, protect and support breastfeeding, prevent obesity and noncommunicable diseases, promote healthy diets, and ensure that caregivers receive clear and accurate information on feeding, companies that market foods…
How you can see and share Tigers From Oscar-winning director, Danis Tanovic (NO MAN’S LAND) and Andy Paterson (GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, THE RAILWAY MAN) comes a true story, 12 years in the making. A Pakistani salesman, employed by…
News stories: Friday 13 Sept 2024. Guardian Keir Starmer ready to face down ‘nanny state’ jibes in radical public health drive Junk food ad ban, age limit on energy drinks and expanded water fluoridation among measures planned to help NHS.…
We were sad to learn from her grandson of the death of Stella Glenn, the mother of Julie Crawford – a former Director of Baby Milk Action. Both were longtime supporters of our work. Jake has set up a fundraising…
Food products Nestlé Waters fined 2 million euros in France 10.09.2024 Nestlé Waters has to pay a fine of 2 million euros in France. The company has concluded a so-called judicial agreement in the public interest (Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt Public…
Important UNICEF Guidance CLICK HERE FOR A PDF Countering Industry Arguments Against Code Implementation: Evidence and Rights-Based Responses Guidance for Advocates of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes https://www.globalbreastfeeding collective.org/reports/countering-industry-arguments-against-code-implementation-evidence-and-rights-based Highlights This resource for policymakers and breastfeeding advocates…
The Competition and Markets Authority announces significant concerns about the ‘behaviour of manufacturers…’ CMA comprehensive update August 2024 The cost of infant formula in the UK and in many other countries has been increasing unjustifiably rapidly, with an average…
Last chance to support the inclusion of an EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING indicator in the Sustainable Development Goals. DEADLINE Thursday 15th August 2024 Deadline Today: 15th August 2024 Here is the link to the submission page where you can add your details and…
COMPILATION: Greed-flation The cost of infant formula in the UK and in many other countries has been increasing unjustifiably rapidly, with an average price increase of 24%1 in two years from 2021 to 2023 with a 45% price increase with…
Special baby milk ‘more likely to fuel obesity, tooth decay and digestive problems’ “Nutritionists say nine in 10 babies in the UK given formulas designed for those allergic to cow’s milk do not actually have an allergy.” An Editorial in…
BREAKING BARRIERS: THE BREASTFEEDING ATHLETES CHAMPIONING CHANGE AT THE PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS. By Eleanor Lee 3 August 2024 https://olympics.com/en/news/breastfeeding-athletes-championing-change-olympic-games-paris-2024 When a mother competes at an Olympic Games, she doesn’t suddenly stop being a mother. That’s the message that athletes…
