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Date: | Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:45:37 CET |
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For what it's worth--and that depends very much on the
socioeconomic/cultural, perhaps legislative, environment--it
may be useful to refer to the simple, straightforward 7-line
paragraph on p. 24 (of the English version) of the joint
WHO/UNICEF statement on breast-feeding and the role of
maternity services (WHO, 1989), to wit: <In some countries
it is a common practice in maternity services to provide
mothers, on discharge, with a variety of baby- and
personal-care products that have been supplied free of
charge by commercial enterprises. The competent authorities
should ensure that such "discharge packs" contain nothing
that might interfere with the successful initiation and
establishment of breast-feeding, for example feeding bottles
and teats [nipples], pacifiers and infant formula.>
Jim Akre, Nutrition unit, WHO, Geneva
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