The International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN, consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality.
IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices.
After a two-year trial, the publisher was convicted on the grounds that Nestlé could not be held responsible for infant deaths under criminal law.
[4] In 1981, the 34th General Assembly of the World Health Organisation adopted resolution WHA34.22, which included the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.
The RLA Jury has honoured IBFAN “for its committed and effective campaigning over nearly twenty years for the rights of mothers to choose to breastfeed their babies, in the full knowledge of the health benefits of breastmilk, and free from the commercial pressure and misinformation with which companies promote breastmilk substitutes.” IBFAN's principles are: