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Companies need to know that violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes will not be tolerated. Help us get the message out by writing a letter, sending an email or making a phone call. Let violators know that infant health must come before corporate profits!
Government and health policies need strengthening, too. Click here for the latest action items.
Action Alerts
- The University of Alberta is planning to award the Chairman of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Latmathlé, an honorary degree…
[Read] - Stop the Abbott Nutrition Webcast promoting infant formula to Canadian Health Care Providers…
[Read] - Canadian Government Planning to Skip Crucial Global Health Conference…
[Read] - Stop Mead Johnson’s infant formula seminar for Barrie hospital paediatrics department…
[Read] » Mead Johnson Seminar Cancelled! « - Ask the UN to stop partnering with the baby food and junk food industries…
[Read] - Canadian Perinatal and Pediatric Conference receives unconditional grant from Nestlé Nutrition…
[Read] » Nestlé did not sponsor the conference! « - Are you fed up with formula promotions? Let the Minister of Health know…
[Read] - Sign the online petition to Health Canada to broaden consultation on infant nutrition recommendations…
[Read] - Health Canada revising Canada’s infant and young child feeding policy statement: Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants…
[Read] - Montreal Nurse-In for mother told to stop nursing in a store…
[Read] - Make breastfeeding protection, promotion, support and Safe Motherhood a priority for the G-8 and G-20 meetings…
[Read] - White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity recommends breastfeeding to reduce risk of obesity…
[Read] - Loblaw free formula undermines breastfeeding and endangers maternal and child health…
[Read] - Canadian passport application graphics include feeding bottles…
[Read] - UN agencies joint statements on IYCF in Haiti…
[Read] - Ban Nutrition and Health Claims for Infant Formula and Complementary Foods…
[Read] - Heinz issues nation-wide baby food recall…
[Read] - Mead Johnson guilty of false advertising, U.S. court finds…
[Read] - Supposedly unbiased article, “Have a baby feeding backup plan,” reads like an ad for Nestlé…
[Read] - Gross violations of Vietnam’s formula marketing laws reported by Associated Press…
[Read] - Nestlé Nutrition is listed as a major sponsor of a national nutrition conference…
[Read] - Mead Johnson launches Enfamil website with the title, “The Breast Milk Formula – Enfamil”…
[Read] - Canadian Breastfeeding Protection Petition Launched…
[Read] - Pétition pour la protection de l’allaitement lancée…
[Read] - The upcoming CPS annual conference is being sponsored in part by some of the world’s biggest formula companies…
[Read] - Help save Cambridge’s lactation consultants…
[Read] - IBFAN UK produces 10-minute online video to mark Breastfeeding Awareness Week…
[Read] - Breastfeeding battle rages on in Philippines…
[Read] - Mayor of Ottawa accepts sponsorship from Mead Johnson…
[Read] - Hospital for Sick Kids Accepts Nestlé Sponsorship…
[Read] - FOOD BANKS AND INFANT FORMULA…
[Read] - Using Breastmilk as an Indicator…
[Read] - AAP releases controversial recommendations on reducing SIDS risk…
[Read] - Boycott Nestlé this Hallowe’en…
[Read] - Toronto breastfeeding clinic faces closure
North York General Hospital, one of Toronto’s largest health facilities, is closing its breastfeeding clinic.…
[Read] - IBFAN members shore up UNICEF’s breastfeeding support Your letters make a difference.…
[Read] - Anti-Nestlé union leader shot dead in Phillipines.
Nestlé’s labour practices to face public inquiry. Nestlé “Fair Trade” not so fair…
[Read] - UNICEF and the International Code Update.
Response received from UNICEF New York.
The letter raises a number of key questions. IBFAN will be forthcoming with these questions - please visit soon for updates.…
[Read] - Letter to UNICEF…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT: The Little Wonders Baby and Toddler Expo in Barrie lists both Mead Johnson (Enfalac) and Abbot Ross laboratories, two of the world’s biggest formula producers, as exhibitors.…
[Read] - Action Alert FOLLOW-UP: Baby Boom…
[Read] - Baby Friendly Boom, Please!
ACTION ALERT - BABY FRIENDLY BOOM, PLEASE!
Ottawa's breastfeeding community needs your help! In a serious violation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes, an upcoming baby show has accepted Similac as its major sponsor.…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT: Mead Johnson and the CJ Foundation for SIDS…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT: What’s your best baby feeding tip?…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT: McMaster Children’s Hospital seduced by Nestlé Nutrition Institute…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT: Canadian Family…
[Read] - Action Alert: Canadian Living sends dangerous message to its readers…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT: CODE VIOLATIONS AT SICK KIDS…
[Read] Sick Kids Responds - Vitamin D Recommendations: INFACT’s Appeal to Ujjal Dosanjh…
[Read] - Baby & Toddler Expo Barrie…
[Read] - CHEO cancels event sponsored by Nestlé and Mead Johnson.…
[Read] - SIMILAC ADVANCE…
[Read] - ACTION ALERT – www.canadianparents.com…
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