There are an untold number of examples of
the infant food industry's interference and influence.
Current trends for partnerships with the private sector have seen
the infant food industry attempting to forge links with UN agencies, especially in the area of HIV and infant feeding.
Training in breastfeeding medicine for health care workers must be paid for by hospitals or by the health care workers themselves, again at considerable cost, by contrast with education on artificial baby food, which is offered at no charge by
the infant food industry.
Feeding Babies on the Weston A. Price Foundation website Nourishing a Growing Baby Tricks of
the Infant Food Industry Including Baby at the Family Table
The International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes was adopted to prevent the interference of
the infant foods industry in feeding decisions.
The elimination of commercial influence and inducements to artificial feeding by
the infant foods industry remains a key struggle in IBFAN's efforts to restore breastfeeding to its rightful place as the foundation for a child's healthy growth and development.
Not exact matches
Industry consensus at the time was that you couldn't sell
food for
infants and for 10 - year - olds under the same brand name: «No significant baby brand had ever successfully extended beyond the toddler market,» says Jon Owsley, a partner at Catterton.
HRS adds value to
food processing
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infant food supplements.
In this context Herba Ingredients proud itself, able to offer a complete vertical integration package to the
infant nutrition & organic
food industry.
Allan also has regulatory and technical affairs experience in the
infant formula
industry and has worked for the U.N.
Food and Agriculture Organization helping develop Codex international food standa
Food and Agriculture Organization helping develop Codex international
food standa
food standards.
Hamish Renton, Managing Director of HRA
Food & Drink and free - from
industry expert, talks to us about the marketing and development of free - from
infant products.
What's more, the concept of which
foods offer an appropriate complement to the diet of a breastfed
infant as well as the
food environment, including a booming baby
food industry, have changed dramatically over the past 50 years, Turner - Maffei pointed out.
The article quotes
industry nutrition lobby group Specialised Nutrition Europe (SNE) as saying it «deeply regretted» the result of the vote: «This draft regulation would have completed a legal framework ensuring a high level of
food safety and guaranteeing strong consumer protection for
infants and young children..»
I am writing on behalf of the International Baby
food Action Network (IBFAN), the global network that monitors the baby
food industry and works for EU Policy coherence with World Health Assembly Resolutions on
infant and young child feeding.
In part 2, I will look in more depth as some of the other papers and comments in the Lancet Breastfeeding Series, with a focus on the role of the
infant formula
industry in undermining breastfeeding and misleading mothers — and what the International Baby
Food Action Network (IBFAN) and Baby Milk Action / IBFAN - UK are doing to hold the
industry to account.
This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby
food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in
infant and young child feeding.
Write Today's Parent and ask them — once and for all — to stop aiding and abetting the
infant formula
industry by running ads that violate the International Code of Marketing of Breast - milk Substitutes and Canada's
Food and Drugs regulations on health claims for
infant formula as well as consumer protection laws prohibiting misleading advertising.
The findings of such research would give the scientific community rich insights into the nutrition of
infants and children, and also help the nutraceuticals
industry in designing better
infant foods and supplements.
Regulations successfully defended in 2007 when challenged by the pharmaceutical
industry at the Supreme Court regulate the promotion of
foods for
infants and young children up to three years of age as health officials attempt to prevent thousands of unnecessary deaths occurring every year.
Commercial
infant formulas are the most highly regulated
food, and are carefully quality - controlled and manufactured to the highest
industry and government standards.
A convenience
food created by manufacturers and advertisers, admired by doctors and health professionals, and welcomed by mothers, commercial baby
food grew in popularity, its growth fueled by changing notions of
infant feeding, the discovery of vitamins, and a nascent advertising
industry.
Over the past five years, the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the Cochrane Collaboration (an independent research organization that receives funding from the government but none from the formula
industry) have all published research concluding that ARA and DHA are not effective at improving
infant's visual and neurological development.
This leaves the door wide open for the baby
food industry to intervene with quick fixes that further exploit
infant's and mother's vulnerabilities..»
Health Canada should implement policies that there should be no participation in policy development for
infant and young child nutrition by those who are employed by the
infant food products
industries, those who receive research funds or other benefits from these
industries.
In fact, thanks to manipulative marketing efforts by the baby
food industry,
infant formula has essentially been regarded as equivalent to breast milk, or even better, because anyone can feed the baby with it, freeing the mother from this work.
While the baby
food industry has its own profits at heart, as breastfeeding mothers and advocates, we can work together locally and globally to protect mothers» rights to receive unbiased and evidenced - based information about
infant feeding.
(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall
food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all
infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the
food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to
infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;
«It is clear that the
food industry fascination with nutraceuticals (strategically fortified
food products) is now spreading into
infant formula,» said Barbara Moore, president and CEO of Shape Up America!
Other speakers discussed how soy products will help meet U.S. dietary guidelines, with its renewed emphasis on plant - based diets; noted that the soy
industry is working on production of novel varieties of high oleic soybean oil low in saturated fat; stressed the marketing of soy as a complete protein, perfectly appropriate as the only protein source for
infants, children and adults; promoted the use of «stealth health» as opposed to «muscling» in change to force dietary changes (that is, sneak soy into common
food products); speculated on how to remove the allergens from soy; and figure out what to do about the fact that soy doesn't actually taste very good.