Sentences with phrase «as a breastmilk substitute»

HiPP Organic follow on milk is intended for use after 6 months of age as part of a mixed diet and should not be used as a breastmilk substitute before this age.

They may, however, have graphics for easy identification of the product as a breastmilk substitute and for illustrating methods of preparation.»

In Papua New Guinea, the sale of feeding bottles, cups, teats and dummies is strictly controlled, and there is a ban on advertising these products as well as breastmilk substitutes.

To make matters worse, the Brazilians receiving Nestle's donation are exactly the kind of people who would use Ninho / Nido as a breastmilk substitute: poor families.

while follow - up formula may not be explicitly promoted as a breastmilk substitute....

Sweetened condensed milk and skimmed milk should not be used as breastmilk substitutes.

Simply placing warnings on the products that they are not to be used as breastmilk substitutes is not enough, as 39 % of Laotian women are unable to read.

INFACT Canada has received reports that Bear Brand products are widely mistaken as breastmilk substitutes.

HiPP Organic growing up milk is intended for use from the 12th month as part of a mixed diet and should not be used as a breastmilk substitute.

This particular product is utterly nutritionally inadequate as a breastmilk substitute, yet depicts a mother and baby bear in the breastfeeding pose on its label.

In response to a request from Mr Taylor, the World Health Organisation provided evidence on the importance of reducing added sugars and also on marketing, explaining that all products that function as breastmilk substitutes, including any milk products (liquid or powdered) that are marketed for young children (including follow - up formula and growing - up milks) are covered by the International Code.

Among other things, the new Guidance clearly calls for milks marketed for babies 6 - 36 months to be treated as breastmilk substitutes and not promoted.

WHO explains that WHA Resolutions «clearly cover all products that function as breastmilk substitutes.

Only then will breastfeeding be marketed as successfully as breastmilk substitutes were being marketed before the introduction of the International Code (see =» #page3» > page 3).

Not exact matches

The International Code of Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes (known in lactivist circles as the «WHO Code»), prohibits formula companies from advertising in any conspicuous way: «There should be no advertising or other form of promotion to the general public of products within the scope of this Code,» proclaims article 5.1 of this policy, coauthored in 1981 by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).

A few potted things the boycott and campaign has achieved: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (despite what Nestlé told the bloggers, it opposed the Code - scans of documents from the time are on our site), the Code's implementation in 70 countries to greater or lesser degrees, breastfeeding rates in countries taking action to stop malpractice increasing (Brazil from median duration 3 months in the 1980s to 10 months today), Nestlé changing its policy on milk nurses and baby pictures on formula, stopping specific cases of malpractice such as Nestlé promoting formula in Botswana as preventing diarrhoea etc. etc..

«As an investor, the Methodist Church profits directly from Nestlé's aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes, which contributes to the unnecessary death and suffering of babies around the world.

At past shareholder meetings, the Chair repeatedly defended promoting infant formula with strategies such as logos on labels claiming «protects» babies, despite knowing that babies fed on breastmilk substitutes are more likely to become sick than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, more likely to die.

Let them know that if they want a leadership role as a Canadian food retailer, they must comply with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and World Health Assembly Resolutions on infant and young child feeding.

Baby Milk Action has been in correspondence with Nestlé about the logos, as with many other violations, and it is refusing to remove them in line with the provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981.

As explained above, the FTSE4Good breastmilk substitute criteria assess practices against company policies, not the WHO Code.

Nestlé is already breaking the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly in the UK (as it does around the world).

These self - serving marketing campaigns dressed up as «imparting knowledge» are prohibited by international marketing standards — Article 5.5 of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes is clear that companies should not seek direct or indirect contact with pregnant women and parents.

to ensure that formulas targeting babies 6 - 36 months are noted as being unnecessary, that all are Breastmilk Substitutes and all come under the scope of the International Code and subsequent relevant WHA resolutions and should not be promoted.

The JACEI report praises Nestlé for being the first company to meet the breastmilk substitutes criteria to be included in the FTSE4Good ethical investment Index, yet there is a significant conflict of interest involved as the Church Central Finance Board (CFB), which decided to invest in Nestlé in 2007, sits on the FTSE4Good committee responsible for assessing Nestlé's baby milk marketing and advising on the criteria.

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As a global citizen concerned with infant health, I noted with great appreciation your statement on the occasion of the 2005 World Breastfeeding Week indicating UNICEF's continued commitment to the implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.

This advice came to mind when I read that the Israeli health ministry, as stated back in June, will now be requiring maternity wards to offer two competing brands of breastmilk substitutes for newborns.

Nestlé, which has been designated as the «Least Ethical Company» globally, is infamous for practices including destruction of water resources; aggressive marketing of infant formula and other baby foods in violation of the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent WHA resolutions; trade union busting and infiltrating public interest organizations critical of Nestlé's predatory practices.

Breastmilk substitutes are a necessary product in certain circumstances, although follow - on formulas have been described by the World Health Assembly as not necessary and so - called growing up milks have been invented to part parents from their cash — pure and simple.

As efforts to implement the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and Resolutions have made it harder for companies to directly advertise infant formula in many countries, companies have stretched the brands and invented a whole range of formula for older babies and young children.

Her poem Embarrassed, about her own experiences of breastfeeding in public, which also touched on issues such as the aggressive marketing of breastmilk substitutes and the unnecessary death and suffering this causes, has been viewed over seven million times online.

The baby feeding industry invented follow - up formulas for marketing purposes and falsely argues that these are not covered by the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly resolutions (The International Code) It has now added to the strategy fortified formulas with idealised names such as «growing up» or «toddler» milk — claims that have not been authorised for the European market.

As part of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), Baby Milk Action has over 30 years of experience in monitoring corporations against marketing standards adopted through the UN system: the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly.

The conditions clearly state: «The image known as SDG - WBW must not be used in any activity sponsored by companies producing or marketing breastmilk substitutes, related equipment and complementary foods.»

Save the Children has called on FTSE to bring the criteria into line with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly and noted the decision to keep Nestlé in the Index has been criticised as in - country assessments identified Code violations (note 3).

«we believe that the BMS [Breastmilk Substitute] Criteria set by FTSE4Good is a real step forward and that the learnings from the FTSE4Good BMS Criteria verification process should be used as a basis for the development of a widely accepted tool to monitor the practices of BMS manufacturers.

This leads to confusion as to the purpose of the product, i.e. a perception that follow - up formula is a breastmilk substitute.»

After years of dedicated campaigning by Filipino activists, this summer the Philippines Department of Health decided to implement extremely strong laws on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes, known as the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Executive Order 51.

2010: FTSE weakens its FTSE4Good criteria for Breastmilk Substitutes as Nestlé and other companies have failed to meet them.

Note, the other breastmilk substitutes they promote, such as follow - on formula and so - called growing - up milks, are unnecessary products according to the World Health Organisation and rip parents off.

As part of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), we have over 30 years of experience in monitoring corporations against marketing standards adopted through the UN system: the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions of the World Health Assembly.

As Nestlé boasts of its inclusion in the FTSE4Good Index, UNICEF Lao has explained why it refused to cooperate with FTSE when its visited the country to assess Nestlé under the flawed FTSE4Good Breastmilk Substitutes Criteria and has produced its own report showing violations, principally by Nestlé and Danone.

HOWEVER, IF infant mortality is high due to infectious diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia, or IF hygiene, sanitation, and access to clean water are poor, or IF the cost of breastmilk substitutes is prohibitively high, or IF access to adequate health care is limited, THEN breastfeeding may be the safest feeding option even when the mother is HIV - positive.

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Complementary food means any food, whether manufactured or locally prepared, used as a complement to breastmilk or to a breast - milk substitute, when either becomes insufficient to fully satisfy the nutritional requirements of the infant.

Even the company with the «highest» score was still only 36 % compliant with the International Code on the Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (also known as the Code)-- a shameful record in the light of the 800,000 babies who die each year because they are not breastfed.

To maintain and increase their profits, breastmilk substitutes companies need to persuade parents to formula feed rather than breastfeed, to choose their formula milk rather than a competitor's, and to use their brand of baby food as early and as much as possible.

While breastmilk substitutes may not be impulse purchases in the same way as chocolate or alcohol, they are high - margin products.

As you know Article 5.5 of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes prohibits seeking: «direct or indirect contact of any kind with pregnant women or with mothers of infants and young children.»