15 May, 2018 Every two years since 1986, IBFAN-ICDC publishes the State of the Code by Country (SOCC), an easy-to-view chart listing the status of 198 countries in Code implementation. Findings of the SOCC 2018 reflect that 36 countries have…
Consultation on the draft report of the WHO Independent High-level Commission on NCDs (Deadline: 16 May 2018) Baby Milk Action/IBFAN UK comments on this consultation (PDF or page down for full text) While this draft report contains some useful observations, these…
Health governance in the public interest? WHO redefines conflicts of interest and risks undermining public health mandates Watch the webcast of this excellent Press Conference: http://pressclub.ch/health-governance-in-the-public-interest/?lang=en Here are the Presentations by David Klemperer and Judith Richter Note: Among the many things worth noting were…
The Third Zero Hunger Summit brought together experts from 35 countries and nine presidents to analyze mechanisms to combat nutrition problems in the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca. Several former presidents, including Oscar Arias (Costa Rica) and Nobel Peace Prize winner…
Please tweet your MP and the following people to ask the UK to support a strong Resolution next week. Remind them that the protection of breastfeeding and conflict of Interest safeguards are urgently needed for babies everywhere. http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/17081 Penny Mordaunt @PennyMordaunt …
Save the Children has published an important new report Don’t push it that clearly shows that the Baby food industry is continuing to use marketing practices that undermine breastfeeding and child health, while pretending to abide by the World Health…
US Senate Hearings, Infant formula in Developing countries, 23rd May 1978 This is an important compilation of excerpts of the testaments given at the Senator Edward Kennedy Hearing. The Hearing helped prompt the eventual adoption of the International Code in…
Click here for the original 10 steps (1991) Click Here for ‘revised’ 10 Steps (2018) 11 April 2018 WHO and UNICEF has issued new guidance to protect, promote and support breastfeeding in health facilities. See the press release below and:…
Lessons from interactions between public health and the food and drinks industry This new report from the UK Health Forum contains experiences from a dozen Public Private Partnerships and Multi-Stakeholder (MSH) arrangements in Nutrition that focus on voluntary self-regulated initiatives.…
Global Breastfeeding Collective The Global Breastfeeding Collective brings together implementers and donors from governments, philanthropies, international organizations, civil society and is led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO). UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi The Initiative’s vision is a world in which…
New Concerns about soy-based formulas. Babies fed soy-based formula have changes in reproductive system tissues CHOP co-author of NIH-led study: Subtle estrogen-like responses in infants point to need for longer-term follow-up of effects March 12, 2018, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia…
Changes to the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative IBFAN together with 4 other breastfeeding organisations ( WABA, ILCA, LLLI and the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Network of Industrialized Nations, Central and Eastern European Nations and Independent States (BFHI Network) have worked over the past months on the…
Evening Standard Wednesday, 14th March 2018 Pioneering London initiative teaches surrogate mothers to breastfeed ROSS LYDALL Justine White received an award from the British Journal of Midwifery for her work with mothers Women who become mothers via a surrogate are…
Plastic particles found in bottled water David Shukman BBC Science editor CLICK HERE http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43388870 Tests on major brands of bottled water (including Nestlé and Danone) have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. In the largest investigation of…
AstroZeneca calls for more ‘trust’ in its ‘What science can do’ lecture Pascal Soriot, CEO AstraZeneca, Kate Pretty 2nd Annual Lecture: Homerton College. Thursday 8th March 2018 The Cambridge Life science cluster at a pivot point. I have many…
CLICK HERE https://agroecology-appg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Why-should-the-Precautionary-Principle-be-preserved-APPG-Briefing-in-support-of-amendments-66-112-113-March-2018.pdf Why should the Precautionary Principle be preserved, post-Brexit? What is the Precautionary Principle? The Rio Declaration (1992) states that: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used…
Baby Milk Action sends condolences to the family of Helmut Maucher, (Nestlé CEO from 1981 – 1997). However, while he is being praised as a strong and visionary leader, its important we not forget the harm he caused to so many children…
WHO: in the claws of the lobbyists? L’OMS : dans les griffes des lobbyistes ? This documentary film by Arte was broadcast in 2017 and is now available on Youtube. This is a hard hitting film featuring several IBFAN partners…
Commission Notice on the classification of Food for SpecialMedical Purposes (FSMP) (2017/C 401/01) CLICK HERE This is an important new document issued by the European ‘College’ – EU Institutions, bodies, offices and Agencies and the European Commission. This is a…
Bliss says no to sponsorship – Danone plays around with ethics on Radio 4 STOP PRESS Following feedback on its potential sponsorship from Nutricia Early Life Nutrition (Danone) BLISS has decided not to go ahead: “We now understand that this sponsorship…
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Trade Bill – Discussions on post Brexit trade deals have already started and SUSTAIN is encouraging people to write to their MP to make sure concerned that British people and our MPs will all have a say in…
Could your Health Visitor win the 2018 Julie Crawford Award for Breastfeeding Support? Julie Crawford Award for Breastfeeding Support 2018 Nominations are now OPEN The Baby Feeding Law Group is seeking nominations for the Julie Crawford Award for Breastfeeding Support.…
In response to the call for comments on WHO’s proposals for an Independent Global High-level Commission on NCDs I sent the comments below, outlining our serious concerns about the appropriateness of three of the proposed Commissioners, who will have an ‘advisory’ role: Arnaud…
https://www.ibfan-icdc.org/conflict-of-interest-the-breastfeeding-friendly-country-index-project/ 28 OCT 2015 CONFLICT OF INTEREST – THE BREASTFEEDING FRIENDLY COUNTRY INDEX PROJECT Posted at 10:06h in Code Related by Ibfan-Penang 0Likes We anticipate that in the near future, many (mothers, health workers, and public health advocates, etc.) will…
Below are links to a mixed range of news – starting with this paper that has been in preparation for quite some time. Interference in public health policy: examples of how the baby food industry uses tobacco industry tactics Learning…
142nd session of the Executive Board 22–27 January 2018, Geneva, Switzerland CLICK HERE for the webcasts of all the meetings. This has been a hectic week once more at the WHO Executive Board (EB)- and we have needed to give…
WHO governance: The conversation continues Civil society meetings related to WHO EB142, 19-20 January 2018 Baby Milk Action is a member of the Geneva Global Health Hub G2H2 that was launched during a civil society side event at the 69th World…
Attempts to Redefine Conflict of Interest. Accountability in Research. December 6, 2017. Marc A. Rodwin. DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2017.1405728 English version HERE French version: HERE Abstract: The traditional legal concept of conflict of interest is a practical tool to regulate conduct. In…
French salmonella baby milk scandal ‘affects 83 countries’ 14th January 2017 CLICK HERE for the BBC World Service interview with Alison Linnecar, IBFAN global working group on chemical and microbiological contamination of infant feeding products. (Click Here for the website) The…
Baby Milk Action and all our IBFAN colleagues were saddened to hear the news that Timothy Stamps – Zimbabwean minister for health from 1986 to 2002 and a long time outspoken supporter of breastfeeding and the International Code at the World Health…
CLICK HERE for PDF in Spanish French and US Trade delegations put child health at risk 39th Codex Alimentarius Nutrition Committee (CCNFSDU), Berlin, Germany 4th – 8th December 2017 The nutrition committee of the WHO/FAO Codex Alimentarius Commission – the UN body…
French Government calls for global withdrawal of Lactalis formulas. 14.12.2017 It took almost ten days for the Government of France to react to the scandal of widespread contamination of powdered formula milks produced by the giant French dairy producer Lactalis.…
CLICK HERE for this new report just published on World Nutrition Interference in public health policy: examples of how the baby food industry uses tobacco industry tactics Sabrina Ionata Granheim Independent consultant on nutrition Katrin Engelhardt Independent Public Health Nutritionist Patti Rundall Policy…
IndiaSupplementaryfood Sathyamala-2017-Development_and_Change WHO against formulated supplementary food for moderate malnutrition Rema Nagarajan| TNN | Oct 12, 2017, 20:13 IST https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/WHO-against-formulated-supplementary-food-for-moderate-malnutrition/articleshow/61055411.cms NEW DELHI: The World Health Organisation (WHO) in its recent guidelines to tackle the global epidemic obesity categorically recommended “not…
Update: IBFAN intervention on the GWP at the Executive Board Meeting in January 201. CLICK HERE for reports from the special Executive Board in November 2018 with links to the webcasts IBFAN SUBMISSIONS ON THE DRAFT General Programme of Work Baby…
MPs fail to retain the Precautionary Principle. What does it mean for baby food marketing ? Tonight UK MPs voted against a new clause that would have ensured that important environmental protection would continue after Brexit Exit Day. The characteristic feature of…
RCGPDANONEFREE practical training in child nutrition http://rcgp-news.com/49LX-45JT-F6GC4NE99/cr.aspx A GP, subscriber to Baby Milk Action and member of the RCGP sent us this link today: http://rcgp-news.com/49LX-45JT-F6GC4NE99/cr.aspx The RCGP seems to be promoting FREE training in association with DANONE on Child Nutrition. RCGP.
Following the revelation of 12 secret meetings with Israeli ministers during a holiday earlier this year, Priti Patel, UK Secretary of State for International Development was called back from a trip to Uganda and Kenya and forced to resign. CLICK HERE to be…
IBFAN’s new comment on the revision of the Follow-up Standard (Codex Stan 156-1987) Please share with your country delegates Codex paper IBFAN’s point by point comments on Follow-up Formula CLICK HERE IACFO’s comments are the same as IBFAN’s CLICK HERE…
Call to Boycott the GMM meeting in Frankfurt (Click here) This message is to clarify IBFAN’s Call to Action regarding the upcoming meeting in Frankfurt that will, among other things, discuss a proposal for a Global Monitoring Mechanism organised…
The Body Shop is no longer connected to Nestlé as it has been sold by L’Oreal (part-owned by Nestlé) to Brazilian company Natura. We’re proud of everything that we achieved alongside L’Oréal. Now we are about to start an exciting…
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STOP PRESS: WHO has now published its draft 13th General Programme of Work (GPW13). English Strategy on a page WHO Impact Framework http://www.who.int/about/gpw-thirteen-consultation/en/ “The draft 13th General Programme of Work will be discussed at a Special Session of WHO’s Executive…
CLICK HERE for the consultation page where you will find IBFAN’s new comments on 3 important issues that will be discussed in Berlin in December.
IBFAN Note of Dissent 12 May 2017. IBFAN Note of Dissent Page down for list of endorsers and PDFs in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese Call to action Protecting infant health: IBFAN stands up to a new initiative by…
Look at who the Niti Aayog is consulting October 26, 2017, 6:31 PM IST Rema Nagarajan in Staying Alive | India | Times of India DISCLAIMER : Views expressed below are the author’s own. International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is globally known for…
URGENT Call for EU member states to support UN Treaty on Business and Human Rights CLICK HERE for PDF CLICK here for links to webcasts etc CLICK here for the daily Updates from the European Colation for Corporate…
3rd Session of Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations The third session of the IGWG for the elaboration of an international instrument to regulate TNCs and Other Business Enterprises (OBEs) with respect to Human Rights started yesterday and will…
IBFAN call to Action.23.10.17 Call to action Protecting infant health: IBFAN stands up to a new initiative by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation A few years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) turned its attention towards infant…
At Palais the Nations, the 3rd Session of the 68th Session of the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women. The Opening of Session IGWG on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights is officially open! You…
