>The Code clearly indicates
that samples of products can be provided to health care workers "for the
purpose of professional evaluation or research at the institutional level"
(Article 7.4). The Code does not prohibit manufacturers of breastmilk
substitutes, bottles or teats from health professional educational exhibits.

An exhibit where breastmilk substitutes, bottles and teats were on display
would still be in full compliance with the Code. <

To assess this arguement I feel I need further information.  Were the
exhibitors paying for their stalls, paying a sum which covered their stall
plus underwrote part of the conference or paying nothing?  If the last this
seems in keeping with this provision of the code, if the middle, not, if the
first, I would have to think about it.

I would also be interested to hear what anyone else understands by 'at the
institutional level'.  I would have understood that to mean that ILCA could
receive samples to the office address and perhaps send them to designated
members to test/evaluate, on behalf of the whole organsation.

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK
ILCA member

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