Recent Posts

WHO slams baby formula industry’s marketing tactics

Bloomberg Makers of infant formula use misleading marketing and aggressive lobbying tactics to drive sales in a $55 billion-a-year industry, according to a three-paper series from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Manufacturers make unsubstantiated claims about their products, such as that they are very similar to actual breast milk or can ease infants’ discomfort, say the WHO papers published in ...

Read More »

Lockheed’s F-35 has fewer unfixed defects

  Bloomberg The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Corp. have reduced laundry list of deficiencies on the contractor’s F-35 with fighter jet, the world’s costliest weapons program, due for a key combat simulation by mid-year. The number of “open deficiency reports” now stands at 831, the Defense Department’s F-35 program office said, down from 845 in September 2021. Earlier last year ...

Read More »

Shell directors sued over lack of climate ambition

Bloomberg Shell Plc faces a new front in climate litigation as lawyers, supported by a group of shareholders, sue the oil giant’s board in the UK. Two years after a Dutch court ordered Shell to slash its emissions, ClientEarth are filing the first lawsuit of its kind anywhere in the world against 11 members of the board, accusing them of ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend