Hi Jacquie,

Good to hear from you. I've just gone back on Lactnet after months "nomail".

It is good that advertising for their products has disappeared in Africa. 
In Australia artificial milks for newborns and babies udner 12 months cannot 
be directly advertised, but that doesn;'t stop the companies. To stay within 
the letter of the MAIF Agreement, the companies advertise the totally 
unnecessary toddler milks - in the same cans, same logo which, as Nina 
Berry's research has shown, mothers perceive as ads for infant food. The ads 
push the idea that only from their additives can kids get prebiotics and 
probiotics, neglecting to state that there are far more in human milk and in 
a fluid where they are in balance. I don't know how many parents switch from 
breast to artificial substitutes with added prebiotics, because they don't 
know that the real thing is so richly endowed with prebiotids, which 
stimulate growth of probiotics in the bowel.

So, while artificial milks for babies under 12 months can't be advertised, 
there is de facto advertising for them via the toddler ads.

Cheers,
Virginia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacquie Nutt" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 4:29 PM
Subject: Radio program on marketing and contamination issues of artificial 
infant milk


> Hi Virginia
>
> Thanks for alerting us to the story of formula supply issues in Asia.   I
> could not access it via your link, which may be because I am outside
> Australia.  However I found a podcast on
> http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/infant-formula/4914548
>
> Sad to hear that one of the very factors driving the rush for importation
> of western artificial milk is the preciousness of the One Child.
>
> As a side issue, it was uncanny hearing formula ads again. I don't think
> I've heard one in Africa since the 1990s, or certainly not for newborn
> milks.
>
> Best wishes
> Jacquie
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> Jacquie Nutt IBCLC
> South Africa
>
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