I encourage others to write IBLCE about the FAQs.  Below is my letter about
the changes.

Joy Noel-Weiss RN IBCLC PhD

Dear IBLCE

The changes make sense, although I am disappointed to see the WHO Code is
not in the body of the CPC, and I chafe at a medical code (Council of
Medical Specialty Societies) setting a standard for me - why use another
profession's code and why would one think medicine has a higher standard
than IBLCE?  Why rely on any other professional code when IBLCE has been a
leader in the area of setting a standard around avoiding conflict of
interest and upholding high ethics standards?

Please correct the typo (I assume it is a typo, since IBLCE would be well
versed in all things about the WHO Code) - the resolutions are from WHA -
the World Health Assembly.  

Since revising the CPC, it seems the FAQs have not been revised.  Any that
involve the WHO Code are misleading - on one hand, you recognize the WHO
Code and (I assume) how IBCLCs depend on it to protect their ethical
practice but then you dismiss it in the examples in the FAQs.

You want us to promote, protect, and support breastfeeding, yet you
undermine an IBCLC's position by providing FAQs that employers and industry
can use to justify breaking the WHO Code.

Please remember that even if the WHO Code is not a law in my country, I can
work by a higher ethics-based standard by upholding the WHO Code.

Sincerely,
Joy  

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