A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City recalled the years when printed images of missing children appeared on milk cartons.

In the mid-1980s, a Michigan-based nonprofit, the National Child Safety Council, spearheaded the national milk-carton initiative, publicizing photos of missing and endangered youth at a time when ...

MSNBC to air new doc on the first missing child to appear on milk carton. Nov. 30, 2012, 10:49 PM UTC. By Madeline Peters.

NEW YORK — On a milk carton or poster, or flashed across a television screen, few images are more haunting than the photograph of a missing child. Dozens of nonprofit organizations, large and ...

Later that year, the National Child Safety Council, a non-profit, launched the Missing Children Milk Carton Program and worked with 700 hundred dairies from across the nation to take part in it.

The tactic of putting missing kids’ faces on the side of milk cartons became widely popularized as Etan, a young white child, was said to have been the first missing kid to have his picture ...

In mid-October 2023, Israeli artists in New York City considered printing the details of the missing children on real milk cartons to raise awareness of their situation, according to a New York ...