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03/11/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Nestle called out for false health claims and deceptive marketing of its infant formula

The baby formula market is worth over $47 billion a year and is expected to increase by a further 50 percent in the next three years. Of the four biggest companies raking in most of these profits – Nestlé, Danone, Mead Johnson Nutrition and Abbott – Nestlé takes the lion’s share of the spoils, with […]

02/15/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Nestle accused of using JUNK SCIENCE to market infant formula products to gullible women

Swiss food giant Nestle is coming under fire for misleading consumers using nutritional claims regarding its infant formulas. A report by the Dutch group Changing Markets Foundation and Globalization Monitor that investigated the way Nestle markets infant formula around the world found that their health claims regarding nutrition and ingredients were based on marketing strategies […]

12/19/2017 / By Ralph Flores

FDA supports diet soda: They declined to ban misleading advertising for artificially sweetened drinks

It’s hard to ignore the writings on the wall when it comes to diet soda. Several studies have pointed out the adverse effects of drinking diet sodas — people who regularly drank diet soda are more likely to develop stroke and dementia and may not be even helping you lose weight. (Related: Diet soda, aspartame linked to premature deaths in […]

05/10/2017 / By Ethan Huff

Coca-Cola teams up with grocery giant Albertsons to steal your smartphone information … invasive “Minority Report” marketing goes mainstream

Struggling to maintain its customer base amid lagging sales, soft drink giant Coca-Cola has developed a new program in partnership with grocery supermarkets that invades people’s smartphones in order to steal their private information and send them custom-tailored coupons and other marketing material – this, after previously attempting to boost sales by pushing soda for […]

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