How to ensure your breastmilk is alcohol free
19/12/2023
Parents want clear information when it comes to the health of their babies. Check out these tips and strategies to ensure your breastmilk is alcohol free.
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Parents want clear information when it comes to the health of their babies. Check out these tips and strategies to ensure your breastmilk is alcohol free.
A network of Victorians with experience of alcohol harm share their experience and expertise in a new report to inform policy change.
Mother-of-three Breanna McGuire had some odd cravings during pregnancy, but alcohol wasn’t one of them.
Launched in November 2021, Every Moment Matters (EMM) is a national health campaign sharing the latest evidence-based information and resources about alcohol, pregnancy and breastfeeding. In the two years since its launch, EMM has reached millions of Australians, and data shows that the campaign has made a significant impact in raising awareness and influencing behaviours.
FARE CEO Caterina Giorgi says ABAC’s reversal of it’s position on Hard Solo shows the industry-led scheme isn’t working.
In 2022, 1,742 people in Australia died of an alcohol-induced death, such as chronic conditions like liver cirrhosis or acute conditions such as alcohol poisoning. Alcohol-induced deaths were recorded at a rate of 6 deaths for every 100,000 people living in Australia – the highest rate reported in 10 years.
Hearing their mum, Robin, talk about her experiences more than three decades ago really brought home to sisters Taryn and Christy just how different current attitudes are to drinking alcohol in pregnancy.
Alcohol companies are currently drawing people’s attention away from the risk of harm associated with alcohol use by using marketing claims that make their products appear healthy, including ‘low sugar’ and ‘low carb’. There is strong evidence that nutrition content marketing claims like these can create a ‘health halo effect’ on unhealthy products.
A report analysing TikTok content on Asahi’s Hard Solo.
When Corrine was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022, she threw herself into research and discovered how history of heavy drinking could have played a part.
This national poll asked Australians about their support for health warnings on alcoholic products.
Australians overwhelmingly support the introductions of health warning labels on alcohol products warning of harms including liver disease, alcohol poisoning and poor mental health, prompting calls by health and community organisations for them to be introduced.
New polling shows attitudes towards the online sale and delivery of alcohol in Queensland, as the state government considers changes to legislation.
As the Queensland government considers changes to online alcohol sale laws, new polling shows support for commonsense measures to reduce harm.
The South Australian Government has been developing a new SA Cancer Plan with input from the community. They have used this information to understand what is currently happening in cancer care in South Australia, and to shape future strategies which have informed the draft SA Cancer Plan.
Public health organisations have welcomed the Federal Government’s acknowledgement that more needs to be done to protect children through the ongoing Privacy Act Review, and look forward to opportunities to engage further in the detail relating to how we can best keep children safe online
By anyone’s measure, Gilberto Spencer has lived – and is living – a very impressive life. Gilberto is also living and functioning with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), and he wants to tell his story.
Today, the ABS released the latest available data on the Causes of Death in Australia. The rate of alcohol-induced deaths has increased by 9.1 per cent between 2021 and 2022, making this the fourth consecutive year that there has been an increase in the rate of deaths from alcohol in Australia.
The ACT Government has proposed legislative measures to address the delivery of alcohol in a Discussion Paper released for public consultation in August 2023. However, there were also some significant gaps in the proposals that can allow the risk of harms from online sales and delivery of alcohol to continue to increase.
South Australians want higher standards to prevent harm from the online sale and delivery of alcohol, new polling shows.
Australia’s leading alcohol research and education body has launched a campaign calling on the community to demand real warnings on alcohol products, following the publication
This research aims to evaluate the extent of implementation of the DrinkWise labelling initiative an audit of alcohol labels was undertaken. Specifically, to: estimate the proportion of alcohol products displaying the DrinkWise messages (and to investigate any other advisory labels present); determine how frequently each of the different DrinkWise messages is displayed and on what products/categories/by which producers; investigate the size and placement of DrinkWise messages and determine how this differs according to product/category.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) carried out an analysis of the submissions made by alcohol industry bodies to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Inquiry into Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).
The report sought to determine people’s perspectives of the effectiveness of two alcohol labelling regimes, the FARE alcohol health warning labels and DrinkWise’s consumer information labels. The report found that the FARE labels were superior on all measures.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) commissioned Galaxy Research to conduct market testing of five sample health warning labels containing consumer information for alcohol products, in order to determine Australian’s support of the health warning labels and the perception of their effectiveness in raising awareness and changing behaviours.
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