Back to the breast

Many organisations in the country are working at weaning parents from the bottle to mother's milk

Fed up with baby food

Is baby food advertising unethical? Yes, thinks the government. It has issued notification to enforce an amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes,…

Baby food ad market alive

When the amendment to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods Act 1992 banned advertising and promotional activity for …

No formula food for premature babies, they too need mother’s milk: study

A study conducted at AIIMS busts the myth that babies born prematurely need complementary food

Scientists at Arizona State University discover potentially-harmful nanoparticles in baby formula

A new research suggests presence of nanomaterials in baby food can cause DNA and chromosomal damage, organ damage and genital malformations

Marketing of formula milk preventing breastfeeding of infants

3-part Lancet paper finds exploitative market thrives despite WHO recommendations, violating World Health Assembly code 

Bacterial blessing

Mother of all milk

Why is the Indian state so paternal to milk substitutes?

RADIATION TREPIDATION

Wrong tactics

Nestle confesses

Apologises to Chinese public for excess iodine in powder milk

Kids in danger

Experts oppose repeal of law promoting breast-feeding

Selling diarrhoea

Malignant milk?

Infanticide

Soya-based infant formula damages kids' immune system

An ad, a question

Should public-funded institutions endorse commercial products?

Who is the good doctor

Nestl targets homoeopaths to promote its baby food

The right formula

Milk of death

Kenya returns to sender a lethal cargo of contaminated milk powder

Simulating mother's milk

How formula feed can be enriched with nutrients found in breast feed

Discouraging breastfeeding: 50% pregnant women, parents targeted by misleading baby food marketing

Sales of formula milk more than doubled in last 2 decades

Best milk

What makes a kid more intelligent than his peers? Mother's milk might hold the answer

Private via public

Toxic or not

Fatal formula

How infant formula leads to obesity in adulthood