Infant Formula

Nestlé's entry into LMIC formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981, and has led to approximately 10.9 million excess infant deaths between 1960 and 2015.

References

1. https://voxdev.org/topic/health/deadly-toll-marketing-infant-formula-low-and-middle-income-countries#:%7E:text=We%20estimate%20that%20Nestl%C3%A9's%20entry,deaths%20between%201960%20and%202015 Voxdev. 31 Oct 2023. Archived from the original 22 Feb 2024. Retrieved 18 Oct 2024.
2. https://www.nber.org/papers/w24452 National Bureau of Economic Research. March 2018. Archived from the original 1 Oct 2024. Retrieved 18 Oct 2024.