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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Sep 1

Why are infant formula donations unhelpful?

#IYCFE #Emergencies #InfantFeeding #Breastfeeding #Donation #Charity #Humanitarian #Conflict #Famine

Why are infant formula donations unhelpful?

What made it to my Zotero file last week #9

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 24

My latest substack - this time in response to a news piece laying blame and responsibility on parents to kee their babies safe from contaminated infant formula.
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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Check out my latest Substack on the discussion on the future Australian National Food Security Strategy.

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 18

My latest Substack on the Australian National Food Security Strategy. Australia: A land of flood, fire and famine. open.substack.com/pub/nahull/p...

Australia: A land of flood, fire and famine.

What made it to my Zotero file last week #7

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 11

My latest Substack - now up to number six in this weekly series! Yay me 🤣
This one is a short summary of the latest State of the World's Food and Nutrition Security report that was launched at the end of July.
Happy to hear comments, feedback, or other thoughts if you have them.
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Reposted by Naomi Hull

Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · Aug 8

Hot off the press! 🔥 our new case study on political lobbying by the baby food industry and how it influenced New Zealand governments decision to opt out of regulations intended to protect infant health. Please see below for the full article 👇 with congrats to Naomi Hull for her leadership on this!

Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧵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 ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧵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 ➡️ www.accc.gov.au/public-regis... and ➡️ www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧵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. Strong regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 6

🧵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 ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@philbakernz.bsky.social @mboatwright.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Aug 4

Substack#5 had to be about World Breastfeeding Week 2025 🤱🏽🤱🏼🤱🏾🤱
#WBW2025

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Have you heard? It's World Breastfeeding Week.

What made it to my Zotero file #5

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jul 30

This week I write about UNICEF's recent publication "Technical and operational guidance for increasing access to breastmilk through wet nursing in emergency settings".
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Wet nursing - an important strategy for securing access to breastfeeding in emergencies

What made it to my Zotero last week #4

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jul 14

Next instalment - what made it to my Zotero file last week #2 - this time it's a book review: Ultra-Processed Women by Milli Hill.
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Latest read: Ultra-Processed Women:The lies we're fed about what we eat and how to break free, by Milli Hill.

What made it to my Zotero File last week #2

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jul 7

Need to develop some new writing habits, so going to do weekly Substack posts discussing recent publications that have interested me. Here's my first one.
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Sponsorship of health professional events and education by the commercial formula industry.

What made it to my Zotero File last week #1

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jun 27

To demonstrate my point - here is a collection of media headings from the last week. If you have seen any that are the counterpoint aside from Clare's (above) I'd love to hear about them 🙏

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jun 27

3/3 News articles about the lack of formula supply are what the formula industry loves - elevation of importance and 'life-saving' nature of the tinned powder. Plus, the halo effect for donating their product. Meanwhile, women are left malnourished, unsupported and even separated from their babies.

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jun 27

2/3 While I understand there will be a need for formula to be supplied, given the high loss of women's lives in this protracted, man-made conflict, I wonder where the media callout is for better support of women (provision of safe space and counselling) and protection of breastfeeding?

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/3 Thanks for writing this @clarepatton.bsky.social I've been watching the recent media blitz on starving babies in Gaza with the usual emphasis on lack of formula supplies. www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...

Hunger in Gaza: When starving babies is the strategy, not just the outcome

As a mother and academic who studies Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies, Dr Clare Patton never expected to witness the cruelty of Gaza.

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Jun 24

From Assessment to Action: Implementing WBTi to Strengthen National Breastfeeding Policies
Webinar July 3rd! 11pm AEST.
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From Assessment to Action: Implementing WBTi to Strengthen National Breastfeeding Policies

A webinar of the Global Breastfeeding Collective

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · May 26

Overnight, the member nations of the World Health Assembly moved to regulate the digital marketing of commercial milk formulas and baby foods. www.who.int/news/item/26...

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · May 1

Will the NZ Govt reconsider their decision to put export dollars before the health of babies in their departure from FSANZ regulations for the first time (sustained) in history?
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Protecting our youngest citizens: put people before profit in infant formula rules - Health Coalition Aotearoa

Health Coalition Aotearoa is deeply concerned by reports of industry lobbying that appears to have influenced Government decisions to weaken infant formula labelling standards in Aotearoa New Zealand....

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · May 1

It was a priveledge also to be asked to speak on the topic of infant formula regulation - that we could also think of as 'breastfeeding protection'. Joined by Australian Breastfeeding Association, WBTiAUS and other colleagues was a positive robust discussion

Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · May 1

1/2 Thank's to PHAA for great opportunity to meet+engage with Dept of health and colleagues on Aust'n regulatory issues. Fantastic to have infants and young children on the agenda - marketing of infant formula and of commercial foods for IYC. www.prevention2025.com/fprf @publichealthaus.bsky.social

Food Policy and Regulation Forum 2025

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hairdressers this afternoon means time to get started on this. Been looking forward to it @stuartgillespie.bsky.social

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Apr 10

“To what extent is it ethical to build your marketing strategy on exploiting that parental instinct to do the best for their child?”
www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025... @aucklanduni.bsky.social

Following the money behind the same old formula - The University of AucklandFacebookTwitterYouTubeLinkedInInstagramWomen's Refuge

Analysis: If the Government prioritised the health of babies, it would invest more in breastfeeding support and develop a national network of milk banks rather than listening to formula milk marketing...

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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · Apr 9

And the leading story - how the NZ Govt was lobbied to leave the updated FSANZ regulation of formula tin labelling threatening it would impact sales to China and Danone would have tot ake their business elsewhere (out of NZ). www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

How multinational dairy companies convinced ministers to back away from new rules for baby formula

Tougher guidelines were 11 years in the making. But for multinational dairy companies, profits were at stake.

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