>It seems to me that all the companies violate the Code by the simple fact
>that free supplies in the form of gift packs are given to mothers in the
>hospital in the US.  I don't know that we need any further evidence than
>that....after all, the US did sign onto the Code on May 9, 1994, not that
>anyone in the US noticed!!

Although the US came out in favor of the WHO Code it unfortunately has no
force behind it.  We (Action for Corporate Accountability) are now working to
try and get some actual measures passed here to enforce provisions of the
Code.

> It's good to note what happens in Gambia and
>Zambia, and I think we all need to be more globally aware, but the "little"
>things they do here in the US are just as much in violation of the
provisions
>of the Code as the "bigger" things they do in other countries.

Actually the companies violate the WHO Code in the US (and other
"industrialized" countries) just as much if not more so than in "developing"
countries.  The only provision of the Code that had been followed in the US
for several years, advertising directly to mothers, is now widely violated by
all companies and there has never been an effort to apply the other
provisions of the Code to the US market.

Now if we could just get a few legislators or administrators to understand.

Dave