The
World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that reversing
the decline in breastfeeding could save 1.5 million lives
every year, yet baby food companies continue to market artificial
foods in ways that undermine breastfeeding. The people responsible
have names and addresses - call on them to market products
ethically.
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Action
Sheet
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Report
title |
Country |
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Help South Africa to stop Nestlé and others pushing formula
Will UK companies stop breaking the law? |
South Africa
UK |
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Nestlé: systematic violations and broken promises.
Danone/NUMICO and the Code. |
Global |
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Support the call for the UK Government's weak formula regulations to be reviewed and strengthened. |
UK |
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Send a message of solidarity to the UK Government |
UK |
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Wyeth offensive in the Philippines.
Nestlé defends targeting mothers with infant formula leaflets in Bangladesh |
Philippines
Bangladesh |
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Dairy industry attempts to weaken Brazil's baby milk law |
Brazil |
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Help the Philippines stand up to company bullying - petition
Tell baby food companies not to oppose the Philippines government's moves to protect infants |
Philippines |
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Gerber (Novartis) pushing bottles and fails to act on '6 months' requirements
Nestlé and the Indian law on sponsorship |
Global
India |
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Nestlé targets mothers in Slovakia and breaks '6 month' promise.
Support members of the UK Parliament in standing up to the European Union |
Slovakia
UK |
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December 2005
Action sheet
Responses |
Nestlé CEO launches blatant
violation in China
UK government to abandon mothers to baby food companies? |
China
UK |
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May
2005
Action
sheet
Responses |
Nestlé auditors
find violations - but then clear Nestlé
UK retailers
in breach of the law
Hipp
- unethical promotion
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Africa
UK
Central
and Eastern Europe |
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December
2004
Action
sheet
Responses |
Help to bring
in big changes across the European Union
Nutricia
uses free CD to push formula in China
Time for
Nestlé to face the truth
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EU
China
Global |
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June
2004
Action
sheet
Responses |
Companies
exposed in new monitoring report
Nestlé
still the worst of the baby food companies
Please help
to save Brazil's baby food marketing law
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Global
Global -
example from Dominican Republic
Brazil |
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February
2004
Action
sheet
Responses |
Baby
food industry offensive against South African law
Nutricia
promotion in China planned for March |
South Africa
China |
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November
2003
Action
sheet
Responses
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Nestlé’s
idealising leaflets in Egypt and Vietnam
Please help
health campaigners in Pakistan
Nestlé
promises to put stickers on violating products in Bulgaria |
Egypt and
Vietnam
Pakistan
Bulgaria |
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June
2003
Action
sheet
Responses
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Nestlé
pushes infant formula in Botswana with outrageous claims
Nestlé
promises on ‘6 months’ do not stand up
Will Nestlé's
competitors move on '6 months'? |
Botswana
Global -
examples from Bulgaria, Hong Kong and India
Global |
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Take action
to stop new baby food advertising offensive
British
Medical Journal study blasts marketing violations
Nestlé
won't stop promoting whole milks in baby food sections.
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Global
Togo and
Burkina Faso
Brazil, Argentina
and others |
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Will Nestlé’s
new ‘ombudsman’ stop Nestlé’s
marketing malpractice?
Inappropriate
promotion of Nestlé whole milks as baby food
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Global
Brazil, Argentina
and others |
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Companies
exposed for violating Vietnam’s regulations
Marketing
war using “new improved” formulas threatens
breastfeeding
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Vietnam
USA - for now |
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Action
Sheet
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Report
title |
Country |
Ref. |
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Take action
to protect infant health at Codex
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Global
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Wyeth's aggressive
promotion in South Africa
Nestlé
launches infant formula promotion campaign in southern
Africa, violating Resolution on HIV.
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South Africa
southern
Africa
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01/12
01/11
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Wyeth - Breaking
the Rules 2001
How Nestlé
uses the 'breast is best' notice to endorse its breastmilk
substitutes
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Global
Global
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01/10
01/09
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UK election
special
Nestlé
plays word games with Cameroon violation
Will companies
now please change their labels!! (featuring Abbott,
Danone, Dumex, Friesland, Heinz, Hipp, Nestlé,
NUMICO (Nutricia, Milupa, Cow&Gate))
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UK
Cameroon
Global
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01/08
01/07
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