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 ...

The three-paper series, published Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet, extensively outlines "predatory tactics" in the formula milk marketing industry. The research also highlights the need for ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

Less than half of infants around the world are breastfed as recommended, and baby formula is in high demand despite failing to offer the same health and developmental benefits as breast milk, experts ...

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.