Action for Corporate Accountability.

Action for Corporate Accountability (ACA) was incorporated by members of the organization Infant Formula Action (INFACT) who remained dedicated to INFACT's infant formula work. When INFACT chose to change direction away from the infant formula issue and to tackle other causes, these core members created ACA in order to continue the infant formula work. The situations which motivated the creation of INFACT and ACA are as follows.

The uncontrolled promotion of infant formula in the Third World contributed to widespread misuse of infant formulas, which resulted in thousands of infant deaths. In February 1974, War on Want (United Kingdom) published The Baby Killer, a report on infant malnutrition and its link to the promotion of artificial feeding in the Third World. The report shocked citizens in the U. K. and United States. In May 1974 the report was translated and published in Switzerland under the title Nestlé T_tet Babies (Nestlé Kills Babies). This translation and release so angered Nestlé that it brought a libel suit against the Arbeitsgruppe Dritte Welt (AgDW), which had generated the report.

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