Breastfeeding experts quit at Canadian hospital over Nestlé 'wine-and-dine' event

I wrote recently about baby food company sponsorship and concerns over conflicts of interest. The World Health Assembly has adopted Resoluti...

Nestle angered by film on water

There is a report of a Nestlé representative allegedly out of a film festival the company sponsored in Nantucket during the screening of the...

Acting locally has a global impact

Why turn out to the demonstrate or leaflet against Nestlé malpractice? You meet other campaign supporters, you have fun, you learn about the...

Parenting websites and talk boards

If you run or use a parenting website or talk board and want to recommend it to others, leave the information in a comment on this blog entr...

Planning for Nestle free week - 4 October 2008

Nestlé-Free Week will take place around the 4 October 2008. This marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the current boycott by Action f...

UK Government to be quizzed by UN Committee on its failure to act on formula marketing

As part of our UK campaign we have submitted reports to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. This reviews how well gover...

Breastfeeding in public in the UK - more on the 6 months limit on protecting mothers

I wrote yesterday about an apparent backtracking on the UK government´s promise that it would protect the right of women to breastfeed infan...

Is the UK government backtracking on protecting breastfeeding in public?

There is an article in today's Independent newspaper in the UK by journalist Johann Hari entitled There is a smart drug – it's call...

Two weeks to put Nestle in the Corporate Hall of Shame

There are just two weeks left to put Nestlé in the Corporate Hall of Shame, promoted by Corporate Accountability International. Their main f...

Extended breastfeeding in the Mail on Sunday

There is an interesting article on extended breastfeeding in the Mail on Sunday, profiling Stella Onions. You can read the article at: http:...

Ethical Corporation Magazine's analysis of Nestlé Shared Value report

Ethical Corporation Magazine, that most pro-company PR of publications, has taken rather surprising exception to Nestlé's Shared Value r...

A quick way for wealthy people to help protect mothers and babies in the UK

This is a day of good news and bad news for our campaign in the UK. So much progress, but so little money to take advantage of it. The good ...

The Politics of Breastfeeding - pre-order for October

The Politics of Breastfeeding is a book that has motivated many people to campaign to stop baby food companies aggressively marketing their ...

Brazilian breastfeeding conference and 1,600 mothers breastfeeding

I wrote yesterday about sponsorship of events on infant care and the need to be wary of conflicts of interest. Baby Milk Action accepts no f...

Sponsored events and conflicts of interest

Regular readers of this blog will know that there are World Health Assembly Resolutions calling for care over conflicts of interest in spons...

World Breastfeeding Week 2008

Here's a message I've just received about World Breastfeeding Week and a way you can draw attention to any event you are planning. -...

The Queen's Shredded Wheat

The Food Magazine (issue 81) has highlighted that the British Royal Family have awarded their coats of arms to some questionable companies. ...

World Environment Day: Infant feeding and climate change

Today is World Environment Day. Colleagues in the Malta Breastfeeding Foundation have producted a power point show on infant feeding and the...

New World Health Assembly Resolution - WHA 61.48

It was the World Health Assembly last week and a working group presented text on Infant and Young Child Nutrition for adoption. The Assembly...

BFLG monitoring report May 2008

Many thanks to everyone who has submitted information on what baby food companies are up to in the UK to the monitoring project we coordinat...

UK Guidance Notes - our press release

Today we have issued a press release about the new Guidance Notes published in the UK to accompany the Infant Formula and Follow-on Formula ...