Japan – Pigeon uses Dads to promote bottle feeding in Japan
The Pigeon website encourages bottle feeding by highlighting the participation of fathers in the parenting process....
23 April, 2018
April 2018
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IBFAN-ICDC releases Code Essentials 1 & 2 (2nd edition) to help effective Code implementation
Annotated International Code & Subsequent WHA Resolutions and Code Essentials 2: Guidelines for Policy Makers - part of a four-book series that provide clear and practical guidance based on decades of professional and advocacy experience on supporting countries on Code implementation. Click to read more...
04 April, 2018
Breastfeeding and Code monitoring: The first step in tackling double burden of malnutrition
From the 28 – 30 March 2018, ICDC’s Legal Advisor Yeong Joo Kean served as a resource person at a conference...
03 April, 2018
World Nutrition Publishes BTR 2017 Overview
An overview of IBFAN-ICDC’s “Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules 2017” was featured in the latest issue (Vol 8 No 2, 2017) of World Nutrition, the journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association (WPHNA)....
22 January, 2018
Canada – High risk feeding items sent as samples to pregnant woman
To promote its products, Abbott mailed a Similac Club box to a woman who is 28 weeks pregnant. The box contains the following items...
18 January, 2018
Hong Kong should delay no more on legislation to protect babies
When the Hong Kong Code of Marketing of Formula Milk and Related Products and Foods for Infants and Young Children (HK Code) was by the Department of Health in Hong Kong in June 2017, ICDC pointed out its inherent weakness. The HK Code is voluntary by nature and despite its extensive scope, it is unenforceable. There are no sanctions for non-compliance. Prompted by the recent Lactalis formula milk recall (1) in 83 countries, an open letter (2) published in the South China Morning Post reveals that even though the Hong Kong Code includes provisions requiring labels on infant formula for babies...
16 January, 2018