Monitoring marketing of infant formula feeds

doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7396.984

BMJ 2003;326:984 ( 3 May )

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Monitoring marketing of infant formula feeds

WHO's global strategy is tool to protect breast feeding and child health

Manufacturers encourage transparent and official monitoring of WHO code

WHO's global strategy is tool to protect breast feeding and child health

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EDITOR $---$ Waterson and Tumwine assert that governments should accept promotion and protection of breast feeding as critical forimproving child health.¹ In May 2002 the World Health Assemblyproduced its strategy for infant and young child feeding.²The World Health Organization's international code of marketingof breast milk substitutes³ and subsequent relevant assemblyresolutions are integral to this strategy, which is intended asa model for all governments to adapt and adopt as nationalpolicy.

In the United Kingdom there is no indication that the government is considering this strategy or intends to commit to a comprehensivenational policy, including the implied collection and evaluationof information.² Currently only some provisions of the WHOcode and World Health Assembly resolutions are enacted in UK legislation;no formal monitoring has been undertaken; legal mechanisms forenforcement have proved cumbersome. Since the United Kingdom performspoorly in terms of breastfeeding rates in . . . [Full text of this article]

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