Marketing of breast milk substitutes

BMJ 1998;317:350 ( 1 August )

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Marketing of breast milk substitutes

Infant food manufacturers hope code will be implemented properly

Italy has initiatives regarding compliance with international code

Manufacturers have sponsored healthcare journals

Infant food manufacturers hope code will be implemented properly

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EDITOR $---$ It is disappointing that the BMJ should give such prominence to Taylor's paper¹ as it is based on a report of theInteragency Group on Breastfeeding Monitoring that was first published15 months ago. The paper is no more than a reworked presentationof less than 30% of the original document, some of which had alreadybeen reported in the journal.²

The timing is also disappointing in view of the announcement by the World Health Organisation in January 1998 that it is tohold consultations on infant feeding, including an initiativeto identify, examine, and overcome the main obstacles to implementingthe international code of marketing of breast milk substitutesin all countries. The infant food industry is happy to work withthe WHO and others, but in the past the Interagency Group on Breastfeeding Monitoring has refused to meet with us and has repeatedly refusedto provide the information . . . [Full text of this article]

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