BREASTFEEDING OR BUST
US traders told to keep off RP milk policy 

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view_article.php?article_id=24913

Published on page A5 of the October 5, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer 

A PARTY-LIST lawmaker yesterday chided the influential US Chamber of Commerce for opposing moves to promote breastfeeding by regulating the promotion and advertisements of breast milk substitutes in the country.

Akbayan party-list Representative Risa Hontiveros scored the US trade group for its "unwanted, unwarranted, and alarming" interference in the multisectoral effort to promote breastfeeding among Filipino mothers.

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