It's polling day! BUT in other news, our July newsletter is now here, incl: Maternity Action's latest #CostOfLivingSurvey, Grace Hollinrake (ANutr) she/her's new paper on mother's motivations for buying baby foods (or not), guidance on giving water in infancy (for the next heatwave🔥)..

Maternity Action Grace Hollinrake (ANutr) she/her ..new World Health Organization (WHO) report on commercial determinants of non-communicable diseases in Europe #CDoH; BFLG-UK news on the recent WHA side event on digital marketing we attended; new ESPGHAN position on anti-reflux & comfort milks (confirming ours); & several forthcoming events..

Maternity Action Grace Hollinrake (ANutr) she/her World Health Organization (WHO) BFLG-UK ESPGHAN ..incl a second infantmilkinfo webinar; the The Breastfeeding Network UK conference; the Nourishing Futures Network conference; and the Baby Friendly UK conference call for abstracts. Enjoy! Read here: firststepsnutrition.org/news

This is why we need STRONGER regulations to control misleading marketing by the #formula industry, not weaker ones! The regs exist to protect the health of all infants & young children, however they are fed. Wes Streeting MP Andrew Gwynne MP Preet Kaur Gill MP Fleur Anderson MP BFLG-UK Obesity Health Alliance

🔥off the press: Specialised Infant Formulas: Overused, Overpriced & Obesogenic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ce… 👉DYK parents pay up to 37% more for specialised infant milks, often completely unnecessarily? 👉Regulations are poorly enforced & weak, putting infant health at risk BFLG-UK

📢Our Aug newsletter is out today, featuring: updated guidance on eating well for 👶; reminder of our packed lunch 🥪guidance for 1-<5s ahead of Sept; new paper on over-diagnosis of milk allergy by Hilary Allen et al; summary of The Grocer report on baby food/formula market...

Food Standards Agency Aldi Stores UK ...see our editorial on FSMP - overused, overpriced & obesogenic: regulatory reform STILL needed; BFLG-UK update is on the ongoing Competition & Markets Authority investigation in to UK #formula market; forthcoming news on #WBW2024 🤱 webinar; & v.impt open consultations from NICE & SACN/COT...

On our ⁦Clinical & Experimental Allergy⁩ editorial highlighting the misleading marketing & exploitative pricing of special formulas 👇 #EndExploitativeMarketing #BMSCode “Parents 'pushed' into buying formula milk that may be bad for babies” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

On our Clinical & Experimental Allergy editorial highlighting the misleading marketing & exploitative pricing of special formulas 👇 #EndExploitativeMarketing #BMSCode telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/0…

👏 Catherine Hine The Breastfeeding Network UK ‘Breastfeeding mums are struggling in pain - Labour must make 3 key changes' Wes Streeting MP Andrew Gwynne MP Obesity Health Alliance The Food Foundation BFLG-UK mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/fami…

Nb. Unfortunately title is not entirely accurate but article is ok.

🔑 issues with regulations (as Competition & Markets Authority point out) are the loopholes created by infant formula marketing being more tightly restricted than follow on formula & growing up milks, and very poor enforcement.

Competition & Markets Authority Anyway, delighted to hear Competition & Markets Authority will release an interim report for consultation in October, to which we will respond. One step closer to actions to address the unjustifiably high cost of formula - a matter we’ve been advocating on since 2018.

New UNICEF Guidance on Countering Industry Arguments Against Code Implementation: Evidence and Rights-Based Responses, Guidance for Advocates of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes available here: globalbreastfeedingcollective.org/reports/counte… #EndExploitativeMarketing

Excellent work showing how artificial intelligence tools can be used to automate monitoring of inappropriate marketing of breastmilk substitutes and commercial milk formula:

Our quote: “We should not have anyone who works with the formula or baby food industry sitting on a subcommittee of SACN & making recommendations for how you feed babies” 👉NO to #ConflictOfInterests in setting health policy #PublicHealthBeforeProfits #BabiesBeforeBottomLines

#SweetEnoughAlready #EndExploitativeMarketing #HandsOffOurKids #EarlyYearsNutrition Children's Food Campaign Action On Sugar LEYF Nurseries Professor Chris Whitty Jamie Oliver Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 Bee Wilson The Food Foundation Obesity Health Alliance

New World Health Organization (WHO) tools : Sponsorship of health professional associations by manufacturers & distributors of commercial milk formula🤱 1/ Model Policy iris.who.int/handle/10665/3… 2/ Alternative funding resources for events iris.who.int/handle/10665/3… 2/ Case studies iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…