What’s New!

• June 25, 2010The G-8 and G-20 meetings to be held in Canada will focus on the Maternal Newborn Child Health Initiative. Help make breastfeeding protection, promotion, support and Safe Motherhood a priority for the G-8 and G-20 meetings June, 2010.
• May 12, 2010White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity recommends breastfeeding to reduce risk of obesity. Pediatrics study shows Bottle-fed babies may eat more.
• May 25, 2010Two key items of importance on the agenda at the WHA. IBFAN members attended the annual World Health Assembly in May to advocate for the passage of global policies to advance infant and young child nutrition and health.
• May 12, 2010White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity recommends breastfeeding to reduce risk of obesity. Pediatrics study shows Bottle-fed babies may eat more.
• May 7, 2010Loblaw’s formula sales tactics put Canadian children and mothers at risk. INFACT Canada is now receiving reports from parents that Loblaw is handing out formula packs with coupons that provide a full rebate for the purchase of the formula.
• April 23, 2010Feeding bottle images on Canadian pasport application materials. Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs has placed images of feeding bottles on the materials accompanying passport applications for children under the age of 16.
• April 7, 2010Join LLLI and WABA in Celebration of: World Health Day, April 7, 2010: 1000 Cities, 1000 Lives.
• March 15, 2010We are please to announce the global World Breastfeeding Week 2010 theme as set by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action—WABA.
• March 12, 2010New Resources Available: Code Essentials Booklets give breastfeeding advocates the essentials about the need to regulate the marketing of baby foods.
• January 25, 2010Call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in Haiti. UNICEF, WHO and WFP call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current emergency, and caution about unnecessary and potentially harmful donations and use of breast-milk substitutes.
• January 14, 2010Urge Health Canada to protect breastfeeding and ban nutrition and health claims for infant formula and complementary foods for infants and young children.
• December 28, 2009INFACT Canada needs your help. Your contributions are needed more than ever to help continue INFACT Canada’s programming to promote, support and protect breastfeeding.
• December 15, 2009Heinz issues nation-wide baby food recall. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Heinz Canada have issued a Canada-wide recall of one of the company’s baby cereals.
• December 15, 2009Mead Johnson guilty of false advertising, U.S. court finds. U.S. formula manufacturer Mead Johnson’s advertising for its Enfamil brand is misleading and unfounded, according to a federal court ruling.
• October 16, 2009“Have a baby feeding backup plan” piece extolls the virtues of infant formula. Published by the Regina Leader-Post and quoting heavily from Dr. Susan Russell, the supposedly unbiased article reads like an ad for Nestlé, hitting all of the formula industry’s main talking points including repeatedly mentioning that breastfeeding is difficult and not everyone can do it.
• September 22, 2009The Associated Press has published an article revealing gross violations of Vietnam’s formula marketing laws. Multinational formula companies are giving commisions to doctors for every tin of formula sold, are repeatedly calling new mothers once they return from the hospital, and have even sent company representatives to clinics posing as academic researchers.
• July 8, 2009INFACT Canada Summer Sale! For the next few months, we will be offering discounted prices on some of our most popular resources.
• June 18, 2009Nestlé Nutrition is listed as a major sponsor of a national nutrition conference. The Alberta Health Services First Annual Canadian Perinatal and Pediatric Nutrition Conference being held in Edmonton on September 25-26 is not only being sponsored by Nestlé, but one of its speakers will be a Nestlé employee.
• June 17, 2009INFACT Canada presents two upcomming LMCs in downtown Toronto. Facilitated by Linda Smith BSE, FACCE, IBCLC, the first course will be on September 23rd, 24th, and 25th, 2009; the second on November 18th, 19th, and 20th, 2009.
• June 16, 2009Formula company Mead Johnson has sunk to a new low with the launch of a website promoting its Enfamil brand. The website, targetted at U.S. consumers, is entitled “The Breast Milk Formula – Enfamil” and uses the slogan “Our closest formula to breastmilk.”
• May 31, 2009Canadian Breastfeeding Protection Petition Launched.
  We urge you to sign the Canadian Breastfeeding Protection Petition, which calls for action on improving breastfeeding support for mothers and babies across Canada. We will deliver the signatures directly to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
• 31 mai 2009Pétition pour la protection de l’allaitement lancée.
  Nous vous invitons à signer la pétition ci-dessous invitant des actions pour l’amélioration du soutien à l’allaitement pour les mères et les bébés canadiens. Nous remettrons les signatures directement au Premier Ministre Stephen Harper.
• May 28, 2009The Politics of Breastfeeding By Gabrielle Palmer now available.
  In the third edition of her groundbreaking book, Palmer describes the damaging effects of infant formula marketing, and the political and social issues surrounding infant feeding.
• May 26, 2009CPS allies with formula companies
  The upcoming CPS annual conference is being sponsored in part by some of the world’s biggest formula companies.
• May 22, 2009Help save Cambridge’s lactation consultants
  Cambridge Memorial Hospital is considering eliminating all outpatient and inpatient lactation consultant services. The Cambridge Community Breastfeeding Group has launched a campaign to keep the LC’s.
• May 11, 2009New video addresses unethical formula marketing
  IBFAN UK produces 10-minute online video to mark Breastfeeding Awareness Week, which is being celebrated this week in Britain.
• August 21, 2007Breastfeeding battle rages on in Philippines
  This month as communities around the world marked international World Breastfeeding Week, formula companies in the Philippines launched an advertising offensive designed to undermine breastfeeding in that country.
• July 18, 2007Mayor of Ottawa accepts sponsorship from Mead Johnson
  Ottawa Mayor, Larry O'Brien, organizes ‘Baby Supply Cupboard’ food bank food drive. Mead Johnson is a sponsor.
• January 29, 2007New WHO/UNICEF 20-Hour Lactation Management Courses to be held in Toronto, Whitehorse and Brampton are advertised on the site. Online registration is available for all courses.