Month: February 2022

Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) 2021: Pushing for Public Health Before Corporate Profit

The work on the revision of the Codex Standard for Follow-up Formula (CXS 156-1987) has been underway since 2012. It is a long, slow process with many working group discussions, circular letter submissions, conference room documents and differences of opinion and conflicts of interest (the breast-milk substitutes industry attends as part of many observer organisations…