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Infant food security and formula safety in the UK
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IBFAN ILCA Side Event at 79th World Health Assembly.
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Lancet: Outrage over UN-Nestlé partnership
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WHO: 158th Executive Board meeting
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IBFAN WEBINAR on Food Safety with Yasmine Motarjemi, Nestlé Whistleblower
IBFAN WEBINAR WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2026 Serious Food Safety Failings expose global health risks of unregulated online cross-border promotion. Yasmine apologises that her presentation is a little rushed, also that in her description of the complexity of the food supply…
January 2026: Nestlé’s credibility questioned as formulas recalled in 60+ countries over contamination risk
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Compilation: Blogs about former US President Donald Trump
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Botulism outbreak prompts new work on Codex infant formula guidance
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UK Government response to the CMA
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WHO and UNICEF brief on Global Nutrition Targets 2030
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Global Trade: Protecting independent science as Codex tackles UPF
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UN General Assembly: US blocks consensus on NCD Declaration
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Case study of Access to Nutrition Initiative’s Global Index
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The Governments 10 Year Health Plan prompts Parliamentary questions
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Australia moves to mandatory controls on formula marketing
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UK News: Knowsley Council, Parliament: questions, debates…
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Adjournment Debate on infant feeding. The House of Commons 1st July 2025
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News Update: UK and International
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…
WHA78: After years of struggle, Resolution on Digital Marketing of baby foods adopted
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UK news: Baby food pouches – why they should be taken off the market
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UK Government authority calls for follow-up formula ad ban and generic labelling
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WHO Member States call for the regulation of Digital marketing of baby foods
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WHO EB 156: funding, governance, Digital Marketing, emergencies
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Why WHO is important & why IBFAN is a ‘critical friend’
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US threats to Pull out of WHO, Nigel Farage’s new group linked to nicotine products
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Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk
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Codex opens the door to exploitation of emergencies – Australian example
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Codex dodges climate crisis and begins a risky emergency guideline
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CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) publishes Interim Report on formula marketings
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Codex dithers on sugar and opens door to risky labelling in emergencies and through technology
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Petition launched and delivered to Nestlé’s Swiss HQ with 10m symbolic sugar cubes
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Australian questions industry’s weak voluntary agreement
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New Sponsorship resources from WHO
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Last chance to Support the addition of Exclusive Breastfeeding as an indicator in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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UK News: specialised formulas more likely to fuel obesity
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COMPILATION: Why Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships are problematic
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2024. U.S challenges on baby formula regulations in more than half a dozen countries
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HISTORY OF THE DEADLY FIGHT AGAINST THE FORMULA INDUSTRY
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COMPILATION: Research
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COMPILATION: Codex Press Releases and comments
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Will our UK politicians protect UK rights to legislate in the public interest?
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Mexico, Brazil, Kenya, Lesotho and Bangladesh join Side Event at the 77th WHA
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Media coverage of the sugar report
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Ireland called on to co-sponsor a Resolution on Digital Marketing
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2023: SACN report on diets of young children
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