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From: "Debra Knight" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:39 PM
Subject: [LACTNET] WHO Code


**Hi Debra,

You say: "But thanks to good pumps I have been able to provide my sons with 
expressed breastmilk and they never had to have artificial baby milk."

**This is not the point of the Code...

You say: "To accuse Lactation Consultants of going against The CODE because 
they support a particular product I think is unfair."

**This is not the point, either. As stated many times before: the Code is 
not about *using* products; it's about *marketing*.
IBCLC's don't go against the Code by *using* a certain product if necessary. 
They go against the Code if they allow *marketing* for the products that 
come under the scope of the Code.

You say: "So we use the product that violates the CODE"

**I'm sorry to say, but this is plain wrong. There is *no single* product 
that violates the code. It is the *marketing* of certain products that 
violates the Code.

You say: "Yes I think there is a place for the CODE.  I think there are many 
parts that are needed."

**So... what part is it, that you feel is needed? As far as I understand it, 
there is, in the essence only one part: NO marketing is allowed for products 
that (potentially) undermine breastfeeding.

You say: "But we will continue to support Medela and sell their products."

**We can all *sell* their product; we, as well as they, just cannot *market* 
those products (of which pumps are no part, by the way, and pumps could be 
marketed if the rest were Code-compliant).

You say: "They have a good product and they are just trying to do the same 
as the rest of us......support breastfeeding women the best way we know 
how."

**Noone denies that many of their products are of good quality. That, again, 
is not the issue. Problem is... if they would support *breastfeeding* (= 
feeding at breast), they would lose their turnover.

Kindly,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands

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