WBW 2026 will focus on tracking progress and evaluating breastfeeding impact on nutrition, food security and poverty reduction with highlights of successful implementation and lessons… Read More »Breastfeeding for a Sustainable Start in Life: Strengthen What Works
CAC49 meets in Geneva next week to decide on new standards, including controversial US-proposed guidelines that could give food companies more flexibility on emergency product… Read More »Labelling guidelines pushed by the USA risk child health and survival
We are hoping to halt the adoption of a proposal promoted by the USA that calls for guidelines to allow flexibility regarding product labelling and… Read More »IBFAN opposes flexible labelling during emergencies – CAC49
IBFAN and ILCA co-hosted an official Side Event at WHO Headquarters, bringing together food safety experts, representatives from WHO, UNICEF, EU Parliament, Member States and… Read More »WHA79 Side Event: experts, families and governments unite in Geneva to demand a global response to the infant formula contamination crisis
Inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes remains a significant public health concern, with implications for breastfeeding practices and maternal and child health outcomes
Over the years misleading marketing and intrinsic contamination of commercial formula – a child’s first taste of ultra-processed products – has led to infant fatalities,… Read More »Side Event WHA79
IBFAN will be present once again at the 79th World Health Assembly to cover agenda items that impact on child health
IBFAN will be attending the 49th session of the Codex Labelling Committee in Ottawa, Canada in May to address items that affect maternal and young… Read More »Codex Labelling – risky proposals for emergencies
This letter expresses concern about the partnership between Nestlé and the United Nations University (UNU) Institute for Water, Environment and Health (INWEH), which establishes the… Read More »Call to end Nestlé–UNU Partnership
In response to calls from WHO Member States, IBFAN, ILCA and health advocates about the recent crisis of contaminated commercial formulas, WHO and the FAO… Read More »WHO Speeds Up Action on Contamination of Commercial Formulas
With parents’ trust in commercial food systems eroded, the global network IBFAN will urge governments at WHO’s Executive Board meeting in Geneva to take the lead and ensure that families… Read More »New Resolution needed to protect babies from intrinsic contamination
Powdered formula is NOT sterile and requires strict manufacturing controls, transparent testing, rapid warning and support for families. The number of contamination outbreaks in recent… Read More »Formula companies in crisis – Nestlé, Danone, Lactalis and Hochdorf
Recalls expose serious failures in the production, regulation and marketing of powdered formula, highlighting the need to strengthen breastfeeding.
As part of the G2H2 series of Policy Debates from 19-23rd January, IBFAN will host a webinar Wednesday
Soon after the ByHeart recall of its Powdered Infant Formulas (PIF) in the USA because of risk of Clostridium botulinum contamination, 60+ countries have recalled specific batches of Nestlé’s infant, follow-on, pre-term… Read More »Nestlé’s credibility questioned as formulas recalled in 60+ countries over contamination risk
IBFAN, ENCA and the WPHNA joined the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene the UN food standard-setting body whose Guidelines and standards form the basis of… Read More »Codex agrees to work on Botulinum contamination
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… Read More »ByHeart & Botulism: Serious food safety failings expose online marketing risks
More than 50 years since the baby formula scandal, a new investigation focusing on Africa shows that, regarding sugar, a similar malpractice continues. In contrast… Read More »Sugar scandal: in Africa, Nestlé is still putting profit ahead of babies’ health
The baby food issue has rightly earned Nestlé the “baby killer” label. As the market leader, Nestlé’s refusal to abide by the International Code of Marketing… Read More »Why Nestlé continues to be a threat to human and planetary health
IBFAN attended the 48th Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) in Rome, once more raising the need for greater protection of children and due diligence in the… Read More »CAC48 – Protecting independent science at Codex
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