Mary:  Your concern about how mothers will feel about a formula company
doing a survey on infant feeding is that probably they don't even think
about it.  I doubt that they think this is a wonderful thing the company
is doing.  As for the health professions, I can speak for myself that
although I use the Ross data since no other data are easily available, I
have no warmer feelings towards them because they do the survey.  In my
opinion, they do this as a marketing survey, pure and simple.  As for
your concern that direct contact between formula representatives and the
public is a violation of the WHO code, Ross and other companies are
already in gross violation of the code with their direct formula
advertising to the public.  Alicia.  [log in to unmask]