Gourmet Magazine Blog tackles formula marketing
Writing in “The Kid’s Menu,” 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,...
View ArticleMama is… muses on Enfamil Handouts
A “Mama is…” cartoon speculates on how the formula samples in the Enfamil “Breastefeeding Kit” could possibly help mothers successfully nurse. See the cartoon.
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Tool Kit
The Tool Kit has moved here. Moving formula marketing out of hospitals requires a culture change. Many doctors and nurses enjoy giving patients a “free gift,” and don’t appreciate the hidden costs...
View ArticleFormula company pitches workplace “breastfeeding support”
In another cynical move to market formula in the guise of breastfeeding support, Abbott Labs has partnered with Working Mother magazine to create a “workplace breastfeeding support” kit. Blogging in...
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Breaking news: Formula company capable of shame
Mead Johnson pulls “Breast milk formula” web page title June 23, 2009– 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...
View ArticleCan a formula company give good breastfeeding advice?
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’s simple – but subtle....
View ArticleRhode Island Birthing Hospitals End Baby Formula Giveaways
Providence, Rhode Island — As part of efforts to support breastfeeding mothers, women who give birth in Rhode Island will no longer receive infant formula marketing packs when they head home from the...
View ArticleWHO/UNICEF release scathing report, call to action on formula marketing
The World Health Organization and UNICEF have released their long-awaited report on formula marketing. According to the report, “Formula milk is a US $55 billion per year industry that systematically...
View ArticleThe 2023 Lancet series on breastfeeding exposes exploitive marketing of...
The 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding explores how the value of breastfeeding is wasted by governments and public health, and how the vulnerabilities of women and children are exploited by the...
View ArticleMedela issues marketing revisions regarding the Code
On August 11, Medela sent out an announcement to its customers that it was taking steps towards meeting their obligations under the WHO/UNICEF International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk...
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