Baby formula companies have been accused of endangering the health of infant children due to the advice and information they promote around their products. Politicians and campaign groups are urging ...

You've probably heard of Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and even Big Sugar. But how about Big Formula? Infant formula is a billion-dollar industry with an insular market. Only a handful of ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. (Bloomberg) — Makers of infant formula use misleading ...

Formula milk companies continue to defy international regulations and target health centers to market their products, a WHO study on formula marketing and its impact on breastfeeding shows. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The crisis, triggered by the perfect storm of supply-chain issues plus a recall by Similac manufacturer Abbott Nutrition, prompted ...

Digital marketing of formula milk and commercial baby foods is linked to unhealthy parental feeding practices, suggests research published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health. Mums exposed to ...

"Advertisements will make me buy infant formula, if I see a beautiful and chubby baby on TV, well-fed and smiling." That's the feedback from a mother in Lagos, Nigeria, one of 8,500 mothers and ...

The UN slammed baby formula makers for “unethical” marketing strategies and aggressively targeting expecting parents. The United Nations slammed baby formula makers Wednesday for “unethical” marketing ...

Manufacturers make unsubstantiated claims about their products, such as that they are very similar to actual breast milk or can ease infants’ discomfort, said the WHO papers published Tuesday in The ...

Makers of infant formula use misleading marketing and aggressive lobbying tactics to drive sales in a $55 billion-a-year industry, according to a three-paper series from the World Health Organization.