In response to the predatory marketing practices of the infant formula industry, the World Health Organization (WHO) embraced the Code in 1981 as a means to protect breastfeeding mothers and infants from commercial pressures to avoid or abandon breastfeeding.
Continue readingNew 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.
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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
