Global Obesity Summit Madrid The High-Level Session: Call for Action on 28 October (10:30–13:30 CET) livestreamed on WHO Youtube channel. CNFSDU45 – Side Event:WHO food profiling tool for regulatory measures. 2 November 2026. 13:45 – 14:45 CET, Scandic Nuremberg Central…
Upcoming Codex meetings on Nutrition, Food Hygiene and food fraud
Codex meetings on Nutrition, Food Hygiene and food fraud New Codex WEBSITE https://codex.fao.org/ For more information about IBFAN’s work at Codex CLICK HERE CCFICS28 Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems. 12/10/2026 – 17/10/2026 Perth, Australia.…
Help shape priorities for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health beyond 2030
WHO consultation · Revised Deadline 4 November 2026 Help shape priorities for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health beyond 2030 WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health – PMNCH have launched a global call for priority…
Compilations of WHA/WHO blogs
No ‘sunsetting of the Code ’ please! Babies need vigilence us to be needed IBFAN’s Counter-Call to WHO and UNICEF to STOP 10 year-licence to harm children. published July 2020 and updated in November 2020 No ‘sunset clause’ please!…
India: Nestlé share price falls after 3 FSSAI charges
@NestleIndia is faces charges from India’s Food Safety and Standard’s Authority (FSSAI) @fssaiindia for violating the IMS Act 1992 amended 2003 and FSS infant food regulation act 2020 for promotional claims and substandard formula. Nestlé’s stock fell nearly 3% within…
World Breastfeeding Week: strengthen what works
Breastfeeding for a sustainable start in life: strengthen what works The 2026 theme for the World Breastfeeding Week is “Breastfeeding for a sustainable start in life: strengthen what works,” focuses on tracking progress, evaluating impact, and scaling proven approaches…
Risky Codex guidelines, pushed by the USA, adopted
UNHCR Refugee Statistics. Risky Codex labelling guidelines adopted Codex Commission (CAC49) Geneva, 6-10th July The 49th Codex Alimentarius Commission met in Geneva this last week and among other issues, adopted new labelling Guidelines for foods for emergencies proposed by the…
Media and other reports on the Nestlé, Danone recalls
German company made the infant formula linked to botulism outbreak The manufacturer uses milk from 100 contract farmers who supply it with more than a million liters of milk every day. Coral Beach. Food Safety News FSN June 18, 2026,…
The Radical Mums Union exposes the investors behind ByHeart
With thanks to the Radical Mums Union for this posting. CLICK HERE What does $300 million to ‘disrupt formula’ look like? It looks like these tech bros making BANK from breastfeeding struggles. Let’s meet the ByHeart investors, shall we? NATASHA…
Compilation: Blogs about former US President Donald Trump
2015: Bolton, Trump, Johnson – how food standards get lowered “Improper political interference” in US baby foods puts health and scientific integrity at stake . 2018 Conflicts of Interest and US pressure at the Codex meeting in Rome…
New UNICEF tools to protect children
PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM UNHEALTHY FOOD MARKETING A Toolkit for Developing Effective Laws Model Legal Language for Protecting Children from Unhealthy Food Marketing UNICEF’s new digital toolkit and Model Legal Language for protecting children from unhealthy and ultra-processed food marketing is now…
Farewell to a much loved IBFAN leader, Adriano Cattaneo
Farewells to some important figures Adriano Cattaneo. December 6, 2025 IBFANers are all heartbroken with the news of the death of Adriano Cattaneo on 6th December, after a terrible bicycle accident on 29th September. Adriano was a medical officer for…
WHO and UNICEF brief on Global Nutrition Targets 2030
Global Nutrition Targets 2030 Breastfeeding Brief from WHO and UNICEF PDF Overview Exclusive breastfeeding – defined as the practice of only giving an infant breast-milk for the first 6 months of life (no other food or water) – has the single largest…
Nestlé’s Water Scandals
Why Nestlé continues to be a threat to human and planetary health November 2025 Severe and increasing droughts caused by the climate crisis exacerbate water shortages and environmental pollution. In time for COP 30 in Brazil, IBFAN’s Statement ‘Nestlé Water…
Nestlé closes Irish formula factory, sells USA Water Business, axes 16k job
Nestlé closes Irish factory, sells its North American Water business and axes 16,000 jobs. Nestle to axe 16,000 jobs as new boss pushes to cut costs Osmond Chia. 16 October 2025, 08:19 BST Food and beverage giant Nestle said it…
UN General Assembly: US blocks consensus on NCD Declaration
BREAKING: UN Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases Fails to Win Approval After US Foils Consensus Non-Communicable Diseases 25/09/2025 • Elaine Ruth Fletcher WHO website NGO letter Food industry must be held accountable for driving rising obesity and ill health…
UNICEF Report: Feeding Profit How food environments are failing children.
Feeding Profit How food environments are failing children. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Feeding Profit. How food environments are failing children. Child Nutrition Report 2025, UNICEF, New York, September 2025. Link to full and brief UNICEF report in many languages…
New UK voluntary guidelines for baby foods, questions about sugar..
Infant Foods: Sugar. Show full question Question for Department of Health and Social Care by Anneliese Dodds, Labour, Oxford East (UIN 70903, tabled on 29 August 2025). To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference…
6 lifesaving messages for Gaza and similar settings
6 lifesaving IYCF-E messages for Gaza and similar settings IBFAN WEBSITE Please help share PDF Linkedin and on Facebook. The lack of food, and medical supplies that mothers and families of Gaza face is catastrophic. As the IPC Famine Review report concludes,…
Draft Standard for Foods for Older Infants and Young Children
CODEX COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION AND FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES (CCNFSDU) Draft Standard for Foods for Older Infants and Young Children Baby Milk Action attends Codex either as IBFAN, ENCA or sometimes as IACFO. Here are the comments that…
Adjournment Debate on infant feeding. The House of Commons 1st July 2025
Following the launch of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative Report last week, Jess Brown-Fuller, Liberal Democrat MP for Chichester, led an Adjournment Debate on Infant feeding this evening, Tuesday 1 July 2025 in the UK House of Commons this evening.…
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…
UK WBTi: MISLEADING MARKETING AND OVERPRICED MILK: HOW BABY FORMULA COMPANIES ARE EXPLOITING PARENTS – AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Baby formula marketing ‘risking child health’, say campaigners.Nursing Times, 25 June 2025, by Edd Church Formula milk: Overpriced and misleading products are risking child health, say campaigners British Medical Journal BMJ 2025; 389 :r1333. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r1333 WBTI Policy press release PRESS…
IBFAN appeal to save children from War
IBFAN ON GAZA Urgent Action for Gaza 16th May 2025 After more than four decades working to prevent child illness, suffering and death, IBFAN is well aware of the pain that each loss causes. In more than 160…
UK Government authority calls for follow-up formula ad ban and generic labelling
BFLG-UK response to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) infant and follow-on formula market study: 8 April 2025 UK government authority calls for follow-up formula ad ban and generic labelling Press release 14th February 2025 Baby Milk Action/ IBFAN UK…
France passes a law to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in several products
20 Feb 2025 Today, France has passed a new law that will ban PFAS in several products including clothing and cosmetics. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a family of over 10,000 highly persistent synthetic chemicals often called ‘forever chemicals’, because…
Government response to Food, Diet and Obesity Committee
30 January 2025 The UK Government has responded to many strong recommendations in the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee inquiry report, Recipe for Health: a plan to fix our broken food system. The House of Lords report…
Plastic Treaty fails: can Codex change and prioritise human and planetory health?
Plastic Treaty fails: can Codex change and prioritise human and planetary health? IBFAN interventions at CAC 47 – Video clips Webcasting of all sessions Documentation of CAC47. Participants Draft Report Stop Press: Sidney Morning Herald investigation into the donations and…
Life long risks of sugars in baby foods and double standards prompt calls for transparency and regulation.
The harm caused by manufacturers of sweet processed baby foods is at last being exposed and prompting calls for transparency and regulation. Researchers from the University of Southern California (31.10.24) have found that cutting sugar in the first 1,000 days…
Compilation on EU and UK legislation
Compilation of some of the press releases and blogs related to EU legislation – a work in progress! UK Government authority calls for follow-up formula ad ban and generic labelling Romania: EU legislation and the protection of child health…
Papers
Last chance to Support the addition of Exclusive Breastfeeding as an indicator in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Last chance to support the inclusion of an EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING indicator in the Sustainable Development Goals. DEADLINE Thursday 15th August 2024 Deadline Today: 15th August 2024 Here is the link to the submission page where you can add your details and…
Will our UK politicians protect UK rights to legislate in the public interest?
Part of the new Government’s strategy is to grow the economy. Based on IBFAN’s long experience advocating for policy coherence with WHO recommendations we urge that any new Trade deals that the UK enters must not be allowed to…
How the US waged a Global Campaign againstBaby formula Regulations
CLICK HERE for the full story https://www.propublica.org/article/how-america-waged-global-campaign-against-baby-formula-regulation-thailand?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=feature MORE FROM THIS INVESTIGATION Documents Show Internal Clash Before U.S. Officials Pushed to Weaken Toddler Formula Rules Government documents obtained by ProPublica show a stark rift between trade and health officials over international…
House of Lords inquiry on Food, Diet and Obesity Committee
written evidence BMA HoL8.4.24 25 March 2024 – Food, Diet and Obesity – Oral evidence Committee Food, Diet and Obesity Committee Inquiry Food, Diet and Obesity At 2:15pm: Oral evidence Inquiry Food, Diet and Obesity Prof Carlos Monteiro Professor of…
Trade Update: Briefing on ISDS, UK withdraws from ‘outdated’ Energy Charter Treaty
Briefing: Parliamentary scrutiny of the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (February 2024) Baby Milk Action and IBFAN join UK NGOs in calling on the Government to guarantee time for a debate on a substantive…
Useful links
Irish stories December 2023 Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 We must close the loophole that facilitates misleading online ads for baby formula A new Bill making its way through the Dáil offers an historic chance to end baby…
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD on Gaza
SPECIAL SESSION OF THE WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD Health situation in the occupied Palestinian territory Recording of the session. DRAFT RESOLUTION At the request of 15 Member States, this Special Session of the WHO Executive Board was held in WHO Headquarters,…
New essential publications on the health risks of Ultra-Processing
___________________________________________________________ Ultra-Processed Foods marketed for infants and young children in the UK This new report from the deservedly widely trusted charity, First Steps Nutrition Trust (FSNT) follows on from Chris van Tulleken’s book and is yet more essential reading.…
The Billionaires that Made our World: Gates
The Billionaires that made our world: Gates Feb 15, 2023 This must-see C4 Dispatches Investigation doesn’t address nutrition issues and the Multi-stakeholder entities such as SUN and GAIN that he has funded, but it does allow some great comments from…
Protected: Private: Global Breastfeeding Collective
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EU-led Draft Resolution on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies
IBFAN Proposed amendments EU-led Draft Resolution on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies 74th session of the WHA, May 2021 IBFAN is grateful to the EU for giving Civil Society organisations the opportunity to contribute to draft Resolutions.…
Ask your MP to protect breastfeeding, families in crisis and children in working poverty
The Coronavirus crisis is throwing up enormous problems for so many people and its hard to see where, when or how this nightmare will end. You can help by contacting your MP to make sure the following safeguards are in…
Multi-stakeholder partnerships: what are the risks? The case of Scaling up Nutrition (SUN)
Multi-stakeholder partnerships: what are the risks? The case of Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) PDF The potential of partnerships with the private sector has dominated the narrative of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 overshadowing…
New Updated tools for protecting breastfeeding, including in emergencies
Updated WBTi tool includes IYCF-E with rich information around IYCF-E from countries who use this tool: https://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/uploads/resources/document/wbti-tool-2019.pdf
Swiss Development Aid, Nestlé and Water Privatization
Interesting article by Franklin Frederick (published in two places) on the scary deals being struck by Nestle with the Swiss government. Swiss Development Aid, Nestlé and Water Privatization Franklin Frederick 26/08/2019 https://www.globalresearch.ca/swiss-development-aid-nestle-water-privatization/5687211 https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/201783 Nestlé and the Privatization of Water Nestlé’s…
Expose of International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) – beware!
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/03/science-institute-that-advised-eu-and-un-actually-industry-lobby-group?__twitter_impression=true Science institute that advised EU and UN ‘actually industry lobby group’ International Life Sciences Institute used by corporate backers to counter public health policies, says study June 3rd 2019 Arthur Neslen An institute whose experts have occupied key positions…
WHO finds Breastfeeding reduces child obesity risk by up to 25%
Breastfeeding reduces child obesity risk by up to 25% The World Health Organisation says marketing claims formula is as good for babies as breast milk are misleading Obesity Facts: Association between Characteristics at Birth, Breastfeeding and Obesity in 22 Countries:…
World Public Health Nutrition Association documents conflicts of Interest.
See the new World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA) website that documents and reports on conflicts of interest in public health nutrition policymaking, program delivery and research. https://wphna.org/conflict-of-interest/
Baby Milk Action response:EU Brexit Consultation – The Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
UK Brexit Consultation. The Nutrition (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 Baby Milk Action Comment Baby Milk Action IBFAN UK EU Chronology Consultation description This two week consultation conducted by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) ended on Friday 14th.…