The UK law consultation closes - now will the government act?

It has been a slog, but we have completed our submission to the UK Government's consultation on strengthening the formula marketing regu...

Cow and Gate in Tesco exploiting loopholes in UK legislation

Just look at what Cow & Gate is doing in Tesco supermarkets in the UK! Though first remember that NUMICO, the transnational corporation ...

Nestle and its cheque book at the Labour Party Conference

Nestlé has been popping up sponsoring events at the Labour Party Conference in Bournemouth, just like last year in Manchester. The approach ...

Health oranisations call for the UK Government to implement formula marketing standards

UK health organisations have had a letter published in The Times today calling for the Government to implement the World Health Assembly ma...

Will the new Nestle boss be the same as the old Nestle boss?

Nestlé is going to have a new Chief Executive Officer. Will it make any difference? Let's hope so, but first some background. There was ...

How Gordon Brown could save billions of pounds by protecting mothers and babies

Gordon Brown could save the UK economy billions of pounds by showing political leadership in the area of infant feeding. That’s the indicati...

Safer formula campaign on Facebook

Those familiar with the World Health Assembly baby food marketing requirements that we monitor companies against and call for governments t...

Nestle-free shopping trip

A break from the heavy stuff today to post some pictures to promote our new, reusable, Fairtrade-cotton shopping bags out and about around ...

Infant feeding, type-1 diabetes and a patent for a new-improved formula

I wrote yesterday about the coming strategy of marketing infant formula with an insulin supplement as 'closer to breastmilk', with t...

Missing from formula - will insulin be the next 'closer to breastmilk' claim?

There is a race that I have represented a few times when I have been invited to speak at health worker conferences. It is the race between f...

Nestle boycott on Facebook and Mead Johnson expose on the internet

A couple of internet items on people taking action. The Nestlé boycott on Facebook and protests about Mead Johnson sponsorship at the Univer...

Boots regrets the law - and shows why we need to strengthen it

People contacted us last month through the Baby Feeding Law Group monitoring project about strange shelf talkers on display in Boots in the...

See you at the International Milk Bank Conference 2007, Chester, UK

Baby Milk Action will be an exhibitor at the forthcoming International Milk Bank Conference, to take place in Chester on 20th and 21st Septe...

Recollections on the sad news of the passing of Dame Anita Roddick

Today there has been the sudden, sad news that Dame Anita Roddick, the founder of Body Shop, passed away yesterday, aged 64, from a brain ha...

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Information about formula should be based on independent science

I wrote yesterday how an independent review of studies on the impact of adding Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (LCPUFAs) to formula ...