Topic(s): BMS Code, Breastfeeding
Location: Global
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
Audience: Employers, Health and service providers, Media, Policy makers and legislators, Program designers and implementers, Public
Programs: Policy advocacy
Category: About the Code, Policy advocacy
These three reports, part of Changing Markets' Access to Nutrition Campaign, look at the lack of scientific support for infant milks. While companies claim that their products are informed by the ‘latest developments in nutritional science’, the wide variety of products on sale within and between countries and the efforts of companies to push expensive premium products call such claims into question.
Based on science? Revisiting Nestlé’s infant milk products and claims - April 2019 (English)
Busting the Myth of Science-Based Formula – An Investigation into Nestlé Infant Milk Products and Claims - February 2018 (English and Chinese)
Milking It – How Milk Formula Companies are Putting Profits Before Science - October 2017 (English, Chinese, Spanish, French and Indonesian)
