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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