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Update 42

Update 42 - November 2009

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Who, what, why?

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Much to celebrate, but much to do.

Safer formula campaign victory.

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Celebrating 30 years of protecting infant health

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Industry fights rearguard action against regulation

Page 7 : Policy changes in the United States

• California WIC and the saturated market
• Not so smart
• Soda and sin taxes?
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Page 8 : Malnutrition - a new market

• Danone off GAIN Board but risks remain
• Creating markets at Codex
• GSK PUSHING MICRONUTRIENTS and obesity in India

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Review of the UK law - wrong question, wrong answer

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The UK law is not working - but will anything be done about it

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Medicine and the media

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EFSA and health claims

Page 13 : European policy setting

• NORWAY BANS NUTRAMIGEN 2
• EU Ombudsman decision
• Time to change the rules?
• Optional ingredients

Page 14 : International news

• Marketing onslaught on Vietnam
• Self-regulation...
• Industry compromises IPA
• Not so transparent EU?
• 6 month policies at risk
• Children's Rights in the EU

Page 15 : News from the Philippines

• Coping with Typhoon Ondoy
• Closing loopholes in the Law
• Professor Björkstén’s visit

Page 16 : UK Marketing

• PRODUCT PLACEMENT: stealthy and unhealthy
• Party Conferences
• EU election posters

Page 17 : United Nations and business

• World Economic Forum - a help or a trojan horse?
• UNHCR poised to Bluewash Nestlé
• World Health Assembly - One Million Campaign
• Breastfeeding an MDG indicator?

Page 18 : News roundup

• WHO and Follow-on formula
• Conflicts of interest
• Danone will face boycott if it does not shape up

Boycott News

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Nestlé formula ‘protects’ strategy unveiled at 2009 AGM

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Methodist Church denies Nestlé’s claim of endorsement

Page 21 - 23 : Other boycott news

• Nestlé’s Twitter PR disaster fuels the boycott in the US
• Call for Nestlé to be expelled from the UN Global Compact
• Nestlé spying case still in court
• Nescafé promotion
• Peter feels the pinch
• Nestlé and Cadbury
• Nestlé and Zimbabwe farmers
• Police monitor Facebook protest
• Nestlé thanks us at its AGM
• Sheffield University keeps boycott
• Trust and anti-trust

New publications and obituary

Page 24 : New publications and obituary

• Calendar and book offer
• Fit to Bust
• I hear its the closest to breastmilk
• Breastfeeding - a vital emergency response
• The politics of breastfeeding
• David Morley