Press release issued by ATTAC Switzerland, 26 January 2013 (English translation provided by ATTAC Switzerland – click here for German version) [Media coverage: Le Courrier 26 January – Background from Baby Milk Action] ATTAC Switzerland has taken notice with great satisfaction…
Nestle and co’s US$400 million threat against the Philippines
Baby Milk Action press release 3 December 2012 Campaigners in the Philippines are exposing a threat levelled at the economy by Nestlé and other transnational companies if baby milk marketing regulations successfully defended in 2007 are not scrapped. Nestlé and…
ASA: Pfizer/Wyeth email promoted SMA formula in breach of advertising rules
Press release 28 November 2012 Pfizer/Wyeth has another ruling against it today from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a complaint brought by Baby Milk Action, this time against an email campaign for its SMA brand of formula. The email headed…
Happy birthday ASA? How the Advertising Standards Authority fails to protect babies and their families in the UK.
Press release 25 October 2012 The industry-funded UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is holding an event today to celebrate its 50 years of ensuring advertising is “legal, decent, honest and truthful”. Baby Milk Action is launching a new report on its…
SMA formula NOT “the best milk after Kate’s” ASA ruling finds
Press release 19 September 2012 Media coverage: Dairy reporter In a national billboard, print and online advertising campaign in March 2012, Wyeth (part of Pfizer, in the process of being purchased by Nestlé) promoted its formula in a series of…
Wyeth cancels SMA Baby Know How roadshow following protests
Press release 22 June 2012 Wyeth has cancelled its much promoted SMA Baby Know How roadshow after shopping centres pulled out of the event. Members of the public sent messages of protest to the shopping centres in support of a…
MEPs warn of sweet baby milks and call for stricter marketing rules
Press release 15 June 2012 The vote on the European Parliament’s Report on the Commission proposal for a Regulation on Food for infants & young children and for special medical purposes took place on 14 June in Strasbourg http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sed/speeches.do http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/750 European…
President Aquino of the Philippines called on to defend mothers and babies from the baby food industry
Press release 3 June 2012 President Benigno S. Aquino III of the Philippines, who will shortly arrive in the UK, has been sent a message by Baby Milk Action and members of the public from around the world calling on…
Nestlé Chairman rejects proposals from boycott coordinators at company AGM
Press release 19 April 2012 Media coverage: Dairy Reporter 20 April 2012 At the company shareholder meeting in Lausanne on 19 April, Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathé, rejected proposals from Baby Milk Action that could ultimately bring to an end the…
Nestle Chairman brings shame to the University of Alberta
Press release 10 February 2012 In the media: Edmonton Journal 10 February – EJ 14 February – EJ 29 February. Baby Milk Action mentions: Vue Weekly 15 February – CBC radio 28 February. Update 29 February: Over 70 organizations from…
European Parliament votes to block DHA health claim – but not by a large enough majority to guarantee action by the Commission
Press release 6 April 2011 Media coverage: The Telegraph (11 April 2011), The Independent (6 April), Press Association (6 April). CLICK HERE for DHA briefing Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted today in favour of a Resolution to block…
London Marathon sponsor Nestlé ‘Pure Life’ bottled water criticised
Press release 2 April 2011 Nestlé, the UK’s most boycotted company over its marketing of baby milk, is trying to improve its image by sponsoring the London Marathon on Sunday 17 April 2011 with its ‘Pure Life’ bottled water brand,…
European Parliamentarians oppose bogus baby food health claim
DHA briefing for MEPs DHA V13 European Parliamentarians oppose bogus baby food health claim 16 March, 2011 – 15:33 — Patti European Parliamentarians oppose bogus health claim 16th March – Brussels Members of the European Parliament have moved to block a…
Nestle challenged over health claims which tell mothers that baby milk will ‘protect’ their babies.
Nestle Annual Shareholder Meeting, Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland Press release: 15th April 2010 As Greenpeace activists cut through the ceiling and absailed into Shareholder Meeting with huge banners and leaflets, Nestlé was held to account for its exploitation of…
European opinion on baby foods influenced by industry funding
Archive Press release European opinion on baby foods influenced by industry funding Press release 23 December 2009 Health advocates predict a decline in breastfeeding if a new opinion of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) which is at variance with…
George Clooney questioned over role in advertising ‘widely boycotted’ Nestle
Update 1 August 2013: Apparently stung by criticism of taking a Nestlé paycheck, George Clooney told the Guardian: “Most of the money I make on the [Nespresso] commercials I spend keeping a satellite over the border of North and South Sudan…
EU Platform for Action launched today acknowledges that breastfeeding lowers the risk of obesity
EU Platform for Action launched today acknowledges that breastfeeding lowers the risk of obesity 15 March 2005 The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) [i] has accepted an invitation from the European Commission to join the European Platform for Action…
How safe are infant formulas? The death of a one-week old formula-fed baby in Belgium
IBFAN PRESS RELEASE 10 May 2002 The recent death of a 5-day old boy from meningitis in Belgium raises important questions about the labelling and promotion of breastmilk substitutes and the adequacy of commercial surveillance systems, issues currently being discussed…
1997 The Nestlé Boycott is the best supported consumer boycott in the UK, according to an independent survey.
1997 The Nestlé Boycott is the best supported consumer boycott in the UK, according to an independent survey. The Nestlé boycott is at the top of ethical consumers’ boycott lists in the UK, according to a survey in the 50th…