New Hampshire’s 19 maternity facilities have all stopped distributing formula company discharge packs, Ban the Bags has learned. New Hampshire thus becomes the nation’s fifth bag-free state following Rhode Island (1), Massachusetts (2), Delaware (3), and Maryland (4), as well as the District of Columbia.  Continue reading →

The United States is one of a minority of countries with no legal provisions in place to protect the WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes, according to 2016 report released by The World Health Organization, UNICEF, and International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN). Global sales of product now are $44.8 billion US dollars, on track to nearly double (to $70.6 billion) by 2019. Continue reading →

Delegates to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Britain’s national pediatrician’s organization, passed a non-binding resolution urging the College to “decline any commercial transactions or any other kind of funding or support” from all companies that market breast milk substitutes. Continue reading →