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Have moved to BlueSky. https://t.co/kJ6JMVfVEM RN, MPH, PhD Candidate Uni of Sydney. Public health, first food security, infant feeding.
brisbane, australia
Joined March 2009
🧵1/3 New paper! Profits Before Health? New Zealand Government Rejection of Stricter Infant Formula Marketing Standards and the Lobbying Behind It. Read it here ➡️ https://t.co/iwWVjIeJer
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The WHO provides guidance to health professionals and their associations on their obligations under the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. We audited Aust'n hp associations and found that not many are taking this guidance on board.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
There is growing attention to the influence of commercial milk formula (CMF) marketing on health professionals and their professional associations, with ongoing controversies about the conflicts of...
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🗓️ Save The Date, Join the launch event “The Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health” registration https://t.co/J2mCYPlcdf
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Do Aust'n health professionals receive guidance from their prof associations wrt their obligations under the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes? In 2021, the ACCC determined that they do, so we set out to find out for sure. https://t.co/wkViWb0A13
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Today at #UNGA2025, countries present climate action plans #NDCs. Breastfeeding is an overlooked investment that sustains both life and the planet. Read our proposal to recognize investment in breastfeeding as a carbon offset: 📄 https://t.co/TXtDHBSF2i 🎥 https://t.co/KZER1STVLm
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When we pay for childcare & house-cleaning, buy milk for babies these add to GDP & count toward economic growth; when we look after our own children, clean our own house, #breastfeed our babies … these have no value in current measures of progress. Why?
cambridge.org
Valuing human milk: Applying economic pricing to measure lactation in national accounts - Volume 36 Issue 2
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Why are infant formula donations unhelpful? https://t.co/1Le3uCfCNb
#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine
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My latest substack - this time in response to a news piece laying blame and responsibility on parents to keep their babies safe from contaminated infant formula. https://t.co/pH0o4j870M
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New blog series - WBTi Indicators in detail. The first one is ready, written by Libby Salmon - Indicator One - National Policy, Governance, Funding. https://t.co/HdvJg2OMiY
@ibfanglobal @IBFAN_GIFA @WBTi_NZ @wbtiuk @healthgovau @JuliePSmith1 @OzBreastfeeding @LCANZLactation
wbtiaus.com
National Policy, Governance and Funding Key questions: Is there a national breastfeeding/ infant and young child feeding policy that protects, promotes and supports optimal breastfeeding and infant…
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My latest Substack on the Australian National Food Security Strategy. Australia: A land of flood, fire and famine. https://t.co/ZMTasBkJqO
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My latest Substack - up to #six in this weekly series! Yay me 🤣 This is a short summary of the latest State of the World's Food and Nutrition Security report launched at end of July. Happy to hear comments, feedback, or other thoughts if you have them. https://t.co/fr2VIS71zg
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Women don’t have the same policy influence but are far more productive in making milk for babies and breastfeeding is better for the environment than cows milk too #ghgemissions #greenfeedingtool #mothersmilktool @JEChalmers @AlboMP
🧵1/3 New paper! Profits Before Health? New Zealand Government Rejection of Stricter Infant Formula Marketing Standards and the Lobbying Behind It. Read it here ➡️ https://t.co/iwWVjIeJer
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🧵3/3 This is timely given the current work in Australia to restrict the marketing of infant formula and what the formula industry has to say about it. You can read what they are saying about the matter (publicly) here ➡️ https://t.co/A4c7nscheY and ➡️
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🧵2/3 The NZ govt bowed to lobbying, departing from the revised standard to limit misleading labels on formula tins. Evidence of many meetings between formula execs and NZ ministers. Regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
In 2024, the New Zealand (NZ) government made a rare departure from the joint food standards programme with Australia, administered by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). This paper...
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So New Zealand no longer has food standards for #infant milk formula. How safe is that! Do consumers in #China know? Danone doesn’t care for babies, only profits & used its power to bully officials to end the food law. ‘The 'costly' result …
rnz.co.nz
When Andrew Hoggard announced NZ would set its own infant formula standard, he knew it would be "complex", "costly" and "require significant resources".
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This week I write about UNICEF's recent publication "Technical and operational guidance for increasing access to breastmilk through wet nursing in emergency settings". https://t.co/r4QCBOk7Sm
@UNICEF @ENNonline @WBTi_AUS @WBTi_NZ
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I’ve made it to the third week of my weekly Substack writing. This one about NEC, class action and corporate power. I learnt a couple of new things in the process. ✅🙏 Thanks to all who have subscribed (its all free) I appreciate your support. 🙏😎✌️ https://t.co/BHI6zKUQ1Z
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Do you love all things food and women's health? Check out my review of @millihill book 'Ultra Processed Women' on Substack. Spoiler alert: it's a great read that covers issues related to the commercial milk formula industry and gender roles really well.
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2/2 The @WBTi_AUS team completed two assessments of Australia. They are here - https://t.co/Tw9UXFATNG Australia ranked 98th out of 100 countries in 2023. Looking forward to seeing some progress in the next assessment due by 2028. For more information https://t.co/OhuyhmpPG7. .
wbtiaus.com
Updates and progress on the Australian chapter of the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative
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1/2 The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative is a robust process for tracking country progress on protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding. You can catch the Global Breastfeeding Collective webinar here -
globalbreastfeedingcollective.org
A webinar of the Global Breastfeeding Collective
The esteem panel at the WBTi webinar organised by GBC shared their progress stories based on WBTi assessment and action over the years with repeat assessment. WBTi galvanises policy action to protect , support and promote breastfeeding. 🤱 WBTi is @ibfanglobal flagship program!!
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