Mailings 2025

Fri, Jan 17, 2025. Digital marketing resolution, Tesco abandons ‘milk nurses’, ‘Humanitarian’ donation exploitation

 

2024:

2.12.24   Plastic Treaty fails: Can Codex prioritise human and planetary health?

(see Blog HERE).   IBFAN interventions at CAC 47 –  Video clips

While the  Global Plastics Treaty failed to reach consensus in Busan, Republic of Korea, the  Codex Alimentarius Commission, the WHO/FAO global food standards setting body,  ended its meeting in Geneva,  with several countries, including from South East Asia, still asking for standards that would help them promote plastic-wrapped, synthetic, additive-laden ultra-processed products (UPFs)  that replace the traditional bio-diverse foods that humans have eaten for millennia.(1)

25.11.24.  Codex risks exploitation of emergencies & dithers on sugar, Danone Milk Nurses in the high St

• Codex debates its future direction – but opens the door to risky labelling in foods for emergencies;
• Tesco and Danone Milk Nurses in UK High Street;
• Competition and Markets Authority to decide on formula marketings and Greedflation
• Impact of sugar rationing in World War II – Codex dithers
• 8 Countries table a Digital Marketing Resolution  for WHA78 2025
• Health and Environmental Impacts –  Plastics Treaty

Codex 26th October 2024 Will Codex open the door to exploitation of food aid in emergencies and more greenwashing?  IBFAN protects the right to privacy in e-commerce

20th October 2024. Tigers: 10 years on, corporations still risk child health & survival.

EU and Switzerland try to tackle sweetness – the UK wary of ‘probiotic’ claims, Codex starts new work on baby foods   5 October 2024

Quick Update 2 September 2024.

Quick update (with correct links!)

SDG mailing 12 August 2024

News roundup 6 August 2024  News Update: Nestlé’s Double Standards, Digital Marketing

Petition launch April and Delivery October 2024

Brazil Resolution February 2024

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UD49 September 2020   Top stories:

• Industry exploitation of COVID
• When SUN casts a Shadow
• Multistakeholderism
•  ‘BMS Call to Action’ gives companies a 10-year licence to harm children
• Astro-turfing
• Codex and Ultra processing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update 48 – April 2017

UD 47 – May 2016.

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Update 46 – March 2014

Helping Filipino mothers after the Typhoon  (p18)

EU Diet Platform & Action Plan calls for no sponsorship in schools(p6&7)

Nestlé conflicts in Research

IBFAN in Official Relations with WHO

BINGOS PINGOS

Milks for Mothers

 

UPDATE 45, May 2013.

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Update 42 (November 2009) to Update 45 (May 2013) on the previous version of this website.

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UD19 August 1996  Page 3 – adoption of WHA Resolution 49.15, the first WHA Resolution to call for Conflict of Interest safeguards.)

Page 3 UD19.1996

Update 18 (March 1996)  to Update 41 (November 2008) on our archive website.

UD39 2007

UD36 July 1995

UD36 July 1995

UD12 93

UD 14 1994  P6. Consensus on the Code

 

The  Resolution to control Digital Marketing:  Click here and HERE
Link to our side event with presentations from WHO, UNICEF, IBFAN, Save the Children as well as Brazil, Mexico, Lesotho, Kenya and Bangladesh.  Important new UNICEF guidance  UNICEF has launched an excellent new guidance entitled: Countering Industry Arguments Against Code Implementation: Evidence and Rights-Based Responses.

Infant Feeding in Emergencies
We are a founder member of the multi-agency Infant feeding in Emergencies Core Group, that was set up in 1999 to address policy gaps in infant and young child feeding support in emergencies. The IFE has  many important resources and at the last quarterly meeting we were shown two new films that stress the importance of breastfeeding in emergencies and the risks of unsolicited donations of formula. Here are the links  Breastmilk is A Lifeline during Disastersand this one The Story of untargeted infant formula donations