<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">prundall</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:prundall@babymilkaction.org">prundall@babymilkaction.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br><div><font size="4"><b><span><b><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/22-02-2022-more-than-half-of-parents-and-pregnant-women-exposed-to-aggressive-formula-milk-marketing-who-unicef" target="_blank">WHO Press Release:</a><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">   </span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">marketing – WHO, UNICEF </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">New report details exploitative practices employed by $55 billion </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">formula industry, compromising child nutrition,</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">violating international commitments</span></b></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b><span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></b></span></b></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="4"><b>Petition to end unethical formula research on babies reaches 3,700 after just one day.</b></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><img id="m_-14043575949659793121E4E7E26-866F-4BB4-8558-B4622F00E103" src="cid:17f2acc73d8f1d61bbc1"></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><b><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/02/23/default-calendar/marketing-the-USD-55-billion-formula-milk-industry?" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/02/23/default-calendar/marketing-the-USD-55-billion-formula-milk-industry?" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2022/02/23/default-calendar/marketing-the-USD-55-billion-formula-milk-industry?fbclid=IwAR0ZsNanmdqLvndqWyjAfnWc5T5kwTdu1ufvc0vJZaiIRyNvx60wbd5BFA4" target="_blank"> </a> to REGISTER</b> for the launch on Wednesday 23rd February of the WHO’s <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">new multi-country report. </span></span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Helen C</b></span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>lar</b>k – former Prime Minister of New Zealand will join <b>Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,</b> Director-General of the World Health Organization and UNICEF for the morning event.</span><font style="font-size:14px" face="Calibri, sans-serif"> <b>Dr Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez</b>, </font><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white">Vice Minister of Prevention and Health Promotion, Government of Mexico will attend the afternoon event.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:white;font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/the-ethical-committees-who-approved-this-study-stop-unethical-infant-formula-trials-on-babies?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32395873_en-GB:8&recruiter=11781015&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition" target="_blank"><b>CLICK HERE</b></a><b> </b>for the <b>PETITION </b>calling for an end to unethical formula research on babies and<b> </b><a href="http://www.babymilkaction.org/archives/32708" target="_blank">HERE</a> for more information</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="font-size:15px">IBFAN welcomes the WHO UNICEF report - </span><span style="font-size:14px"><i>How marketing of formula milk influences our decisions on infant feeding</i>,</span></b></div><div><b style="font-size:15px"><br></b></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><span>This brave new report looks deeper into the extent of marketing tactics that influence infant and young child feeding decisions, finding that <i>"</i></span><i>exposure to formula milk marketing reaches 84 per cent of all women surveyed in the United Kingdom; 92 per cent of women surveyed in Viet Nam and 97 per cent of women surveyed in China, increasing their likelihood of choosing formula feeding.” </i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px">The report clearly recommends that governments everywhere </span><span style="font-size:14px">adopt, monitor and enforce laws to prevent the promotion of formula milk, in line with the </span><a href="https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fteams%2Fnutrition-and-food-safety%2Ffood-a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