Has anyone gone down the path of asking about The Code?/

"The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes was 
adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981 as a "minimum requirement" 
to protect infant health and is to be implemented "in its entirety." 
This document introduces the key provisions of the International Code 
<../resource/who/fullcode.html> and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of 
the World Health Assembly <../resource/who/whares3332.html>."/

'The WHA comprises the Ministers of Health of the world's governments, 
and their advisers, eminent experts in the field of public health or 
specific health issues. Although the United States voted against the 
International Code in 1981, thirteen years later the Clinton 
Administration endorsed the Code in the WHA Resolution of 1994, giving 
the International Code the support of every Member State of the WHA.'

Giving out freebies is against Code.  As is several things routinely 
done by companies in the USA.

It is confusing to me why The Code isn't raised more within the USA 
situation as it has signed - but I suspect I'm missing something BIG in 
terms of the USA internal politics.  (Just like I'm only now 
understanding that 'Texas' is a different country! :-)

http://www.ibfan.org/english/issue/code01.html

http://www.ibfan.org/english/issue/code02.html

Morgan Gallagher
(Who has posted this info twice today elsewhere, so WBW does seem to 
have stirred something....)


Naomi Bar-Yam wrote:
> Wow! New York City and parts of Oregon have gone bagless. What a 
> wonderful way to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. How can those of  
> us who live in less enlightened communities take advantage of this 
> momentum? I think some of that will happen by itself without our 
> intervention, but there must be ways we can help it along. The 
> arguments for keeping bags are looking weaker and weaker in the press, 
> to me at least.
>
> In Massachusetts, we were the first to propose such regulations, they 
> even passed the public health board, only to be essentially vetoed by 
> the then-governor, now presidential hopeful. A plan to open a large 
> facility of pharmaceutical/formula company in our state was announced 
> shortly after the veto. Time for Massachusetts and others to "get with 
> the program." When the regulations were passed without the section 
> about bags, I was told that they couldn't go back and revise the regs 
> at this point. What other ways do we have to go bagless? Should we 
> work on individual hospitals rather than the regulation route? What 
> have others tried?
>
> Naomi Bar-Yam

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