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Updates
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- Update 40 (November 2007)
- UK coalition calls for strong formula law
- Philippines bans health claims, protects infants
- Research news: cancer, IQ and obesity
Update 39 (April 2007)
- Calorie overload and infant feeding
- UN HIV policy changed on breastfeeding
- Campaign to support the Philippines
- UK Crackdown on illegal formula health claims
- Update 38 (September 2006)
- 25 years of the International Code
- New EU rules threaten infant health
- Tackling obesity: WHO growth charts, EU actions
- Update 37 (December 2005)
- 6 million lives saved every year
- Formula researchers exploit
HIV
- Italian police
seize formula
- Update
36 (July 2005)
- Resolution tackles
health
claims, sponsorship and labels
- Sales fall as laws take effect
- Botswana latest to legislate
- Update 35 (December 2004)
- European scientists advise against powdered formula for newborns
- Campaign for the Code in Europe reaches critical phase
- Monitoring evidence from 69 countries
- Update
34 (March 2004)
- Monitoring shows
UK law being broken
- Trading Standards
officers take action
- WHO warns of 'intrinsic
contamination of infant formula'
- Update
33 (Summer 2003)
- Judge convicts Wyeth
SMA of 'cynical and deliberate breach of regulations'
- India toughens its
law
- It's official: UK
recommends exclusive breastfeeding for six months
- Update
32 (December 2002)
- UN Child Rights Committee
tell UK to ban formula advertising
- Pakistan law at last
- Case Studies from
8 countries
Update
31 (July 2002)
- Nestlé looks
for a miracle as sponsorship deal backfires
- World Health Assembly
success
- Belgium death sparks
safety questions
- Update
30 (December 2001)
- Infant feeding, trade
and the EU
- Nestlé and
Wyeth target southern Africa
- Donations of breastmil
substitutes - more harm than good?
- Brazil - inspirational
policies tackle aggressive marketing practices
- Update
29 (June 2001)
- New WHA Resolution
- 20 years on
- Unethical research
on HIV?
- Breaking the Rules
2001
- UK teachers reject
commercialism
- Update
28 (November 2000)
- Pakistan latest
- Focus on Ghana
- UN partnerships with
industry
- Update
27 (May 2000)
- Milking
Profits - former Nestlé employee blows the whistle
- EU Scientists declare
their interests
- Update
26 (December 1999)
- Nestlé's new
"monitoring" strategy evaluated
- IBFAN Europe - joining
East and West
- Companies exploit
EU directive
- Update
25 (July 1999)
- The big twelve companies
uncovered
- Industry to be investigated
by MEPs
- Nestlé loses
ASA appeal
- Update
24 (February 1999)
- Infant feeding in
the UK
- Milk bank special
- Export v. health in
Ireland
- IFM complains about
IBFAN award
- Update
23 (October 1998)
- Making an impact
- IBFAN receives award
- Pakistan special report
- EU Medical Directive
causes alarm
- Update
22 (June 1998)
- Dialogue - who benefits?
- New reports expose
malpractice
- Governments under
attack
- HIV and infant feeding
- Update
21 (October 1997)
- Companies target health
workers
- How industry shapes
the world
- UK law campaign renewed
- Update
20 (February/March 1997)
- India
Special Report
- 27 agencies publish
new evidence
- IBFAN's monitoring
is vindicated
- Nutricia conceals
salmonella risk
- Update
19 (August 1996)
- Contaminants in UK
baby milks
- Nestlé on the
loose in China
- World Health Assembly
says no to commercial sponsorship
- Update
18 (March 1996)
- Johnson and Johnson
bottles out of India
- Sponsorship - its
impact on policy
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