URGENT: EU Parliament to vote on nutrient profiles 12th April. Please contact your MEP Nutrient profiles could be very helpful in curbing the huge number of claims authorised for baby foods and products. Thanks to the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)…
Link to New EU Delegated Acts
CLICK HERE for a link to the new Delegated Acts in all languages http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2016:025:TOC The EU delegated regulations on Infant Formula, Follow on Formula and Foods for Special Medical Purposes were published on 2.2. 2016 The link above takes you…
IBFAN Comments on Maternal, infant and young child nutrition
Member States have until the end of February to comment on these proposals Maternal, infant and young child nutrition WHO Secretariat Report, Draft Resolution and Guidance on ending the inappropriate promotion of foods for infants and young children Document EB138/8 …
European Parliament votes for big reductions in sugar in baby foods and prohibitions on labelling at too early an age.
CLICK HERE for the new DELEGATED ACTS Click Here for BMJ article. bmj.i553.full PRESS RELEASE European Parliament votes for big reductions in sugar in baby foods and prohibitions on labelling at too early an age. 20th January 2016 European Parliament, Strasbourg …
ACT TODAY TO REDUCE SUGAR IN BABY FOODS
YOU can help protect the health of babies: CLICK HERE for the text of the Objection that will be voted on 20th January. CLICK HERE for WHO commentary on sugar Ask your MEPs to vote TOMORROW to reduce sugar and pesticide levels in…
IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE EU LEGISLATION
IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO PROTECT CHILD HEALTH CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE DEBATE that starts around 1 hour and 53 minutes after the start: On Monday 21st December there was an important debate in the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health…
IBFAN Codex comments
NEW PAPER ON UNICEF RUTF PROPOSAL RUTF Bullett FINAL IBFAN submissions to the 37th codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany 23-27 November 2015 I will be joining the IBFAN Codex…
Nestle sued over claims of false advertisement of the ingredients in its Gerber baby food
This article is relevant to the ongoing discussions at WHO about inappropriate marketing of foods for infants and young children and shows how foods are ‘idealised’ – not only by baby pictures but by vegetables. Below this article are…
Demand that the EU considers the global impact of its policies follows the Codex Code of Ethics
The latest version of the new laws are below. COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/… of XXX supplementing Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the specific compositional and information requirements for infant formula…
IBFAN submission on Codex
IBFAN has submitted the attached comments to the Codex Alimentarius electronic Working Group for the revision of the Standard for Follow-up Formula. IBFAN 2nd CP Submitters response FINAL These are supported by IACFO. ENCA2015 eWG Consultation 2_ENCA Comments Please forward…
New WHO consultations
1 WHO Framework of engagement with non-State actors CLICK HERE for the background information http://www.who.int/about/who_reform/non-state-actors/en/ Textual proposals submitted by Member States on the draft overarching framework of engagement with non-State actors and the four specific policies contained in the Annex of document…
new proposals for EU Regulations on Formulas and baby foods
IBFAN BFLG comment 27.2.15.2 IBFAN and the Baby Feeding Law Group is mounting a campaign to change some new Commission Proposals for revised regulations on formulas and baby foods. 4 Working Documents are being discussed this week in Brussels. IBFAN believes…
News from Codex in Bali
Codex Nutrition meeting in Bali. CLICK HERE for papers The IBFAN team is facing big challenges at the Codex meeting in Bali. The most important is perhaps the proposal for a revision of the Follow-up Formula (FUF) Standard. Many countries including India,…
Water and Food Security
Committee on World Food Security High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition Water and food security: zero-draft consultation paper Deadline 7th November CLICK HERE It will be important to have strong civil society input to this consultation so…
Useful developments at the Codex Commission
REPORT OF THE SIXTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 8 -11 July 2014 and 14-18 July 201 Full report here: ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/reports/Reports_2014/Rep14_EXe.pdf Thanks to the IBFAN Codex team for spotting the many useful…