This The BMJ investigation reveals that more than half the members of the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) have conflicts of interest with food companies including Nestlé, Tate & Lyle, and the world’s largest ice cream producer: Unilever🧵

Many baby & toddler foods in Aus are marketed to sound like healthy options, when really they are not. Our kids deserve better! Great to see Ged Kearney & Chris Picton MP highlighting the need for stronger regulation around these foods. #KidsAreSweetEnough bit.ly/3Ts0H6F

Response to: World Health Organization (WHO) guideline on the complementary feeding of infants and young children aged 6−23 months 2023: A multisociety response - Grummer‐Strawn - Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jp…

Recognising women's work in gestating, birthing, breastfeeding and caring- quite lovely and unusual.

“Protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding should be included in all emergency preparedness planning. No donations of commercial milk formula, feeding bottles or teats, or breast pumps should be accepted in emergencies.” CINyS - INSP INSP México IBERO CDMX

Please read and share this important new letter in The Lancet. It is an ethical imperative to study mpox and breastfeeding without delay to enable recommendations to protect infants. Many thanks to colleagues Mija Ververs and Prince Imani for this letter. thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

Very powerful and timely piece from our colleagues- breastfeeding mothers and their infants are not spared from outbreaks but are too often excluded from research. Now is the time to act #AtTheEquatorUG

"The public health consequences of immediately studying whether breastmilk can transmit mpox are enormous, particularly for women & infants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."

This will make a real difference to the retirement savings of women right across Australia.

Big news, the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission is proposing that they will not reauthorise the voluntary industry agreement that is supposed to (but fails to) prevent unethical marketing of infant formula in Australia accc.gov.au/media-release/…