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		<title>What happens when Gerber gives breastfeeding advice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IBCLC Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, breaks down the Booby Traps in a Gerber &#8220;Breastfeeding Hints and hurdles&#8221; advertisement appearing on WebMD. Read about it in her Blog, &#8220;Deconstructing Gerber: Why Industry Should Not be Giving Health Advice.&#8220;
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		<title>Mead Johnson to pay $13.5 million in damages for false advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Virginia jury awarded $13.5 million in damages to manufacturers of store-brand infant formula. PBM Products had contested Mead Johnson&#8217;s claims that &#8220;only Enfamil LIPIL is clincally proven to improve brain and eye development.&#8221;
Mead Johnson uses aggressive marketing tactics, such as hospital marketing, to convince families to purchase its high-priced formula. Mead Johnson&#8217;s product costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did your hospital set you up to succeed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent CDC survey, US hospitals are falling short when it comes to breastfeeding support. Formula marketing bags are just one of the obstacles that new mothers may face in the first few days after birth. What&#8217;s to be done? You can start by writing a letter to your hospital to share your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With pressure on hospitals, formula companies seek new marketing outlets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facing pressure from mothers and professional groups to limit hospital-based marketing, formula companies are looking for new partners to pitch their products.  
Mothers continue to receive uninvited coupons and samples mailed to their homes — according to a recent CDC study, nearly 2/3 of first-time mothers received a free sample of infant formula in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can a formula company give good breastfeeding advice?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Studies show that formula marketing bags shorten exclusive breastfeeding duration, even when the formula samples are removed from the bags. How does that work? It&#8217;s simple &#8211; but subtle. Industry-manufactured &#8220;breastfeeding support guides&#8221; offer advice that undermines mothers and promotes artificial breastmilk substitutes, as Erin explains beautifully in her guest blog, Helping Themselves: Breastfeeding Advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking news: Formula company capable of shame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mead Johnson pulls “Breast milk formula” web page title
Mead Johnson hit new lows this past week, calling Lipil “The Breast Milk Formula” on its web site. The title to the web page was changed to “Enfamil – Lipil” following a concerted campaign by breastfeeding activists to contact the Federal Trade Commission.

Mead Johnson&#8217;s advertising is already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Formula company pitches workplace &#8220;breastfeeding support&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In another cynical move to market formula in the guise of breastfeeding support, Abbott Labs has partnered with Working Mother magazine to create a &#8220;workplace breastfeeding support&#8221; kit. Blogging in The Huffington Post, Dr. Melissa Bartick explains why businesses should steer clear of formula propaganda, and instead use the Business Case for Breastfeeding, a federally-funded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tool Kit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moving formula marketing out of hospitals requires a culture change. Many doctors and nurses enjoy giving patients a &#8220;free gift,&#8221; and don&#8217;t appreciate the hidden costs associated with marketing strategies.
Staff may not realized that free samples are linked with earlier use of formula among nursing mothers in randomized controlled trials. Professionals who have never purchased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mama is&#8230; muses on Enfamil Handouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;Mama is&#8230;&#8221; cartoon speculates on how the formula samples in the Enfamil &#8220;Breastefeeding Kit&#8221; could possibly help mothers successfully nurse. See the cartoon.
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		<title>Gourmet Magazine Blog tackles formula marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in &#8220;The Kid&#8217;s Menu,&#8221; Lesley Porcelli describes how she and her baby resisted a barrage of formula handouts and industry-endorsing health care providers to  breastfeed successfully. She writes, &#8220;The world seems to start pushing formula on mothers at the moment of conception. But what if you just want your baby to drink breast [...]]]></description>
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