Capitalising on Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, the new US company ByHeart has been promoting its infant formulas direct to consumers via global platforms such as Amazon, claiming its products are pure, healthy, “filled with ingredients backed by breast milk science in every scoop”…
Severe and increasing droughts caused by the climate crisis exacerbate water shortages and environmental pollution. As COP 30 opens in Brazil, IBFAN’s Statement ‘Nestlé Water Scandals’ addresses the exploitation of scarce water resources for profit
IBFAN calls for urgent action to restrict the production and use of plastics that pollute our planet and damage human health. Tiny plastic particles, known as microplastics, contain toxic chemicals that contaminate soil, water and processed foods
Toxic heavy metals are all around us, in bedrock and in the earth. Inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury are among these poisonous chemical elements. They can accumulate in soil and can leach into water…
Researchers from the University of Southern California have found that cutting sugar in the first 1,000 days of a baby’s life – from conception to the age of two – appears to reduce the risk of developing significant health issues in adult life, with a 30% reduction in the risk of obesity
Babies, young children and their mothers are most at risk from toxic chemicals contained in plastics. Plastic pollution harms their physical, intellectual and reproductive health, both now and in the future. Yet they have no voice to express the problems they face.
The threats to the world’s food supply are numerous and often interconnected, threatening food safety and security for decades to come. What follows is a list of the main threats, and an argument for why breastfeeding[1] is one of the measures needed to counter them.
105,000 people have signed a petition calling on Nestlé to stop adding sugar to its baby food products marketed in lower-income countries. It was handed over today at the multinational’s headquarters in Vevey
IBFAN – the global citizens network that has been protecting child health since 1979, has been attending Codex Nutrition meetings since 1995 when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was established and was mandated to refer to Codex Standards in trade disputes.
The 44th Session of the Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses will be held in Dresden Germany on 2 – 6 October 2024. The Plenary discussions as well as the physical working group meetings will be broadcast live
This is the second infant food recall in Canada just this month. Following the recent discovery of Cronobacter contamination in Gerber cereals, it’s now Baby Gourmet Foods Inc. that is pulling an infant cereal from the market after tests confirmed the presence of the same bacteria
Why is all the funding going into risky trials instead of support for breastfeeding, donor milk banking or Kangaroo Mother Care? n the second court case to find against an infant formula company in the US this year, Abbott has been fined $495 million ($95 m punitive damages, $400 compensatory damages)
The release in April of the Public Eye/IBFAN exposé of how Nestlé markets Cerelac and Nido as beneficial for child development, despite containing high levels of added sugar have prompted widespread
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