Official Tigers press release – November 1st, 2014; MUMBAI: Danis Tanovic’s much-awaited festival-acclaimed film, Tigers starring Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi in his first international project, will release in theatres on March 6, 2015. Produced by Prashita Chaudhary of Cinemorphic, co-produced…
Civil society disappointed at Nutrition negotiations in Rome (2014)
STATEMENT BY CSO DELEGATION TO THE OPEN ENDED WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION 2 DISAPPOINTING OUTCOMES OF NEGOTIATIONS ON NUTRITION Governments met in the FAO Headquarters in Rome from 10-12 October 2014 to finalize the Rome Political…
ASA ruling: ASDA and Nestle misled parents with toddler milk promotion
Baby Milk Action press release 15 October 2014 Click here to sign the petition calling on ASDA and Nestlé to inform the customers they misled See ASA ruling A14-263404on the ASA website. Update 15 December 2014: Nestle’s forced to remove misleading SMA claims following…
Video report on European Premiere of Tigers – the true story of the former Nestle salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN
Video produced by the San Sebastian Film Festival (5 minutes – some commentary in Spanish). For details, screening time and to sign up for news alerts see Baby Milk Action’s special Tigers page. Breaking news 28 September: Tigers wins Solidarity…
Mississauga-Erindale MP Bob Dechert’s attends international premiere of the film “Tigers”
From right to left director Danis Tanovic, MP Bob Dechert, movie subject Syed Aamir Raza, actor Emraan Hashmi and Mr. Raza’s family September 8, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mississauga-Erindale MP Bob Dechert’s attends international premiere of the film “Tigers” …
World premiere of Danis Tanovic’s Tigers gains standing ovation for Nestlé whistle blower
Canadian Government commends bravery of Syed Aamir Raza Baby Milk Action staff represented in the film also present at premiere Baby Milk Action press release 9 September 2014 Media coverage: Examiner.com – Toronto Star – Express Tribune Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 8…
Nestle exploits World Breastfeeding Week as part of formula growth strategy
Baby Milk Action press release 6 August 2014 World Breastfeeding Week, promoted by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), takes place 1 – 7 August 2014, but this year it is being hijacked by Nestlé in a number of countries. This…
Letter from Director of UN corporate accountability initiative reveals its lack of integrity, says Baby Milk Action
Baby Milk Action press release 15 July 2014 Baby Milk Action, a campaign group that monitors the baby food industry against United Nations marketing standards, says it has received a letter (dated 9 July 2014) from the Executive Director of…
Tour de France provides opportunity to promote Nestle boycott
Baby Milk Action press release 7 July 2014 The Tour de France is visiting Cambridge today and is sponsored by Nestlé Perrier Vittel bottled water, presenting an ideal opportunity for campaign group Baby Milk Action to promote the boycott of…
UN Global Compact Office says it has no role to play in protecting integrity of initiative as Nestle continues to violate its principles
Baby Milk Action press release 2 July 2014 Baby Milk Action has today sent an open letter to the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, George Kell, over the failure of the Global Compact Office to hold Nestlé to account for…
Historic Resolution passed calling for a HR Treaty to hold corporations to account
Baby Milk Action and IBFAN are supporting the campaign for a new Treaty to hold corporations accountable for their Human Rights abuses. Baby Milk Action’s Policy Director, Patti Rundall, was in Geneva with IBFAN’s Geneva-based group, GIFA, FIAN other NGOs…
EU opposes action on human rights abuses by transnational corporations
UPDATE 26 June 2014: Victory at the UN Human Rights Council – the resolution to draft the treaty was passed, despite opposition from the US and EU. The UK has a vote at the Council and voted against. So please…
Human Rights Groups Call for Governments to Support Treaty That Protects People from Corporate Human Rights Abuses
Baby Milk Action press release 10 June 2014 Baby Milk Action is today joining colleagues around the world calling on governments to support international efforts to strengthen international law, thereby better protecting people from human rights abuses caused by corporate activities.…
Nestlé-sponsored conference cancelled following complaints
A major health conference in Scotland was cancelled last week following complaints about it being sponsored by Nestlé. Sunday Herald (1 June 2014) C&IT (2 June 2014) The Building A Healthier, Fairer Scotland conference was planned to take place at Dynamic…
Unhealthy diets greater threat to health than tobacco; UN expert calls for global regulation
For online version Click HERE GENEVA (19 May 2014) -The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, called today for a new global agreement to regulate unhealthy diets. “Unhealthy diets are now a greater threat to…
IBFAN report launch 16 May 2014 – Companies continue to violate the International Code
Press release 16 May 2014 Media coverage: Dairyreporter Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules 2014 will be launched on 16 May 2014 at the Club Suisse de la Presse in Geneva by Annelies Allain, Director of the International Code Documentation Centre (IBFAN…
Baby Milk Action’s new website is here
We hope you like our new website! Older documents, press releases and blog spots from our previous website are still being copied over. The new site was developed after Baby Milk Action’s members and supporters told us how they would like to…
Opening the door to Business lobbying – what’s wrong with the new WHO policy proposals
Opening the door to Business lobbying – what’s wrong with the new WHO policy proposals CLICK HERE for TWN article on the outcome CLICK HERE for PDF CLICK HERE for many related stories in Update 46 26th March 2014 …
Opening the door to Business lobbying – what’s wrong with the new WHO policy proposals
CLICK HERE for TWN article on the outcome CLICK HERE for PDF CLICK HERE for many related stories in Update 46 26th March 2014 WHO has published a draft proposal for a Framework and set of policies to address its…
WHO states that follow-up formula is not necessary and that marketing may mislead parents
(Information concerning the use and marketing of follow-up formula) A new statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) released on 17th July, states that follow-up formula is not necessary, is unsuitable as a replacement for breastmilk after 6 months and…
Methodist Church committee presents selective report to Conference (4-11 July) to excuse million pound Nestlé investment
Press release 3 July 2013 The British Methodist Conference (4-11 July) will receive a report from the Church’s Joint Advisory Committee on the Ethics in Investment (JACEI), which has been released to the media. This includes a paragraph on Nestlé, in…
Independent exposes Danone’s formula marketing practices in Turkey
The Independent in the UK has a front-page story on Danone’s marketing of Aptamil formula in Turkey, exposing how it misleads mothers and has misrepresented its relationship with UN bodies. See: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-after-nestl-now-breast-milk-scandal-strikes-aptamil-manufacturer-danone-8679226.html Danone’s campaign encourages mothers to question whether they…
Danone steps up baby milk promotion in Ireland by branding Barnardos Ireland’s Big Toddle events with Cow & Gate formula logo as it rations formula in UK
Press release 25 April 2013 Media coverage: Irish Independent 2 May Danone has branded its sponsorship of Barnardos Ireland’s Big Toddle event running in 2013 with its Cow & Gate formula logo (left, image from the event Facebook page). At…
Nestle shareholder meeting 11 April 2013 – Chairman’s Creative Storytelling Venture – Baby Milk Action launches exposé of misleading claims
Baby Milk Action press release 11 April 2013 Nestlé’s 146th shareholder meeting was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 11 April 2013 and, in addition to complaining that “The political and regulatory environment for publicly listed companies is becoming more difficult…
Danone v. Nestle formula marketing war reaches the UK
Baby Milk Action press release 9 April 2013 Campaigners are pointing to new aggressive baby milk marketing practices in the UK as a sign of increased competition with Nestlé entering the UK market, where Danone is currently the largest company.…
Conflicts of Interest threaten Mexico’s hunger project – industry’s poison chalice
PRESS RELEASE Gran Hotel, Mexico City 9th April 2013 Marcelo Melchior, President of Nestlé Mexico, and Rosario Robles, Secretary of Social Development signing the partnership deal, Mi Dulce Negocio Nestle (My Sweet Business) as part of Mexico’s Crusade Against Hunger. CLICK HERE for PDF…
IBFAN welcomes Save the Children campaign on infant and young child feeding
Press release 17 February 2013 (click here to download as pdf) Click here for Save the Children’s press release, report and petition campaign Media coverage: Guardian (15 February), PDF 18 February: Daily Mail – Guardian – Daily Telegraph – Daily Mirror JPEG, Guardian (19…
ATTAC Switzerland press release: Nestlegate: Successful civil lawsuit against NESTLE and SECURITAS
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…