Mass protest over Facebook policy on breastfeeding photos gains media attention

There has been a petition on the Facebook social networking site for over a year protesting about the removal of breastfeeding photos. I pos...

Two awards and an authority rating

News of two awards and something similar. Firstly, Nestlé has won yet another shaming award. This time it is from a consumer group in Taiwan...

Three awards

News of three awards. Firstly, Nestlé has won yet another shaming award. This time it is from a consumer group in Taiwan. The Taipei Times r...

Improving the search experience

A couple of search engine issues have been on the work plan for today. Firstly we have a new search engine feature on the Baby Milk Action w...

Who is setting the global health agenda?

We have a new addition to our on-line Virtual Shop. It is called Global Health Watch 2 and is an alternative world health report. Our Policy...

Nestle-Free Sweden

I've received pictures of the posters used by colleagues in Sweden for promoting International Nestlé Free Week in October. You can cont...

Take action against Nestle spying

I have been sent the following from victims of Nestlé's spying activities. You may like to sign their petition. You can find more on the...

Nestlé's Bear Brand coffee creamer in Laos

A peer-reviewed study in the British Medical Journal in September examined how parents are using Nestlé Bear Brand coffee creamer as a breas...

Melamine found in Nestlé formula in US and Saudi Arabia - what levels are safe?

I've written previously about the double standard shown towards contaminated formula in China. A ban was put on all Chinese-manufacture...

Companies see profits in melamine contamination worries

The scandal of formula and other products contaminated with melamine in China, which resulted in 4 deaths and 54,000 babies hospitalized, wa...

The right to post information on Nestlé and debate its activities

This blog has been locked by blogger over the past ten days, supposedly as a 'spam blog'. This happened once before. I believed at t...

A gift that helps to save lives and reduce suffering

If you are looking for an unusual and useful gift for someone for Christmas - or any other time - how about membership of Baby Milk Action? ...

Become a member and receive our newsletter

Baby Milk Action members will shortly be receiving copies of our latest newsletter. If you are not yet a member, you can join today through ...

Baby-led Weaning

I've had the good fortune to hear Gill Rapley speak on her work on baby-led weaning a couple of times. In the talks she passes films of ...

Latest victory gets us nowhere

This is a recurring story. Brazil has one of the most effective systems regulating baby food marketing and breastfeeding rates have increase...

Do we need a World TNC Regulatory Authority?

As companies grow ever larger it becomes harder for governments to regulate them. If a company misbehaves in a country, the government may b...

On-line monitoring course to improve protection of child rights

I wrote recently how the UK Advertising Standards Authority cleared an advertisement for formula which breaches international marketing stan...

UK Advertising Standards Authority ruling today shows contempt for child rights

I wrote yesterday about the report on the UK from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child which called for the marketing reg...

UK government condemned once again : "aggressive promotion of breastmilk substitutes remains common" says UN.

One of the reasons we and our partners in the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) monitor the baby food industry is to provide in...

Three things to do on World Food Day 2008

Today is World Food Day. Here are three things to do to celebrate. 1) Order our 2009 breastfeeding calendar - there can be no food more loca...

The Nestle Critics website - search it out

Nestlé's pretence for trying hi-jack the website we launched for International Nestlé-Free Week (4 - 10 October) was the absurd claim th...

Logos for promoting Nestlé-free Zones

To mark International Nestlé-Free Week we have received a donation of the following image, apparently created by a campaigner in Switzerland...

Nestle-free week launch success

Our press release on the successful launch of Nestlé-Free Week is available on our website at: http://www.babymilkaction.org/press/press6oct...

Happy Nestlé-Free Week : 4 - 10 October

The 4 October marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the current boycott of Nestlé over its aggressive marketing of baby foods in the U...

Nestle's response to the Sanlu melamine scandal

I've written about various aspects of the contamination of Sanlu formula in China with melamine and Enterobacter Sakazakii and how Sanl...

Nestle tries to hi-jack boycott site just days before Nestle-Free Week

Regular readers of this blog - which surely includes Nestlé - will know that we have prepared a website called "Nestlé's actions sp...

Enterobacter Sakazakii found in Sanlu formula in China

I wrote recently here about the worryingly common occurrence of formula being contaminated . While the case of melamine in formula in China,...

Sanlu pushed formula in China in breach of international standards

The International Code Documentation Centre - part of the International Baby Food Action Network ( IBFAN - Baby Milk action is the UK membe...