Mixed Mailings 2024:
Quick update 2 September 2024.
The Resolution to control Digital Marketing: There will be a closed meeting for Member States at WHO tomorrow MONDAY 2nd September. This meeting will allow Brazil and other Member states to make suggestions and ask questions. We are hoping that a strong position position will be maintained – supporting the WHO guidance, keeping a wide scope, with strong safeguards against industry interference. For more information Click here and HERE
Link to our side event with presentations from WHO, UNICEF, IBFAN, Save the Children as well as Brazil, Mexico, Lesotho, Kenya and Bangladesh.
Important new UNICEF guidance UNICEF has launched an excellent new guidance entitled: Countering Industry Arguments Against Code Implementation: Evidence and Rights-Based Responses. https://www.unnutrition.org/news/countering-industry-arguments-against-code-implementation-evidence-and-rights-based-responses
This resourcefor policymakers and breastfeeding advocates presents the 36 most common arguments the baby food industry uses to oppose Code legislation, alongside responses and counter-arguments based in scientific evidence and international human rights law. When countries begin to implement Code legislation, baby food industry actors fight back with a predictable set of arguments. These misleading claims — presented as valid concerns, even though they lack legal merit — can delay Code implementation and put protections for families and babies on hold while policymakers work to understand and track down the facts. This easy-to-navigate document allows you to click on exactly the argument you want to research or understand and find a response clearly documented with the relevant scientific evidence and human rights implications. With this comprehensive resource, policymakers and advocates will be well-equipped to facilitate Code implementation and effectively counter industry opposition.
We are a founder member of the multi-agency Infant feeding in Emergencies Core Group, that was set up in 1999 to address policy gaps in infant and young child feeding support in emergencies. The IFE has many important resources and at the last quarterly meeting we were shown two new films that stress the importance of breastfeeding in emergencies and the risks of unsolicited donations of formula. Here are the links Breastmilk is A Lifeline during Disastersand this one The Story of untargeted infant formula donations
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UD49 September 2020 Top stories:
- Industry exploitation of COVID
- When SUN casts a Shadow
- Multistakeholderism
- ‘BMS Call to Action’ gives companies a 10-year licence to harm children
- Astro-turfing
- Codex and Ultra processing
Update 48 – April 2017
UD 47 – May 2016.
UD 47 – May 2016.
Top stories in Update 47:
Tigers – Whistle blower movie
RCPCH votes to end formula funding
EU Parliament votes to lower sugar in baby foods
Corporate capture of WHO
50 years of Nestlé
Update 46 – March 2014
Helping Filipino mothers after the Typhoon (p18)
EU Diet Platform & Action Plan calls for no sponsorship in schools(p6&7)
IBFAN in Official Relations with WHO
UPDATE 45, May 2013.
Top Stories:
Nestlé and Pepsi’s Crusade in Mexico (page 6&7)
Strong laws enacted in three countries
Industry threatens Philippines and Kenya
World Breastfeeding Trends plots path to success
Nestlé formula seized for breaking Indian law
Update 42 (November 2009) to Update 45 (May 2013) on the previous version of this website.
UD19 August 1996 Page 3 – adoption of WHA Resolution 49.15, the first WHA Resolution to call for Conflict of Interest safeguards.)
Update 18 (March 1996) to Update 41 (November 2008) on our archive website.
UD 14 1994 P6. Consensus on the Code
