Frustrated but not about to give up, Bartick and other breast - feeding advocates launched Ban the Bags in July 2006, creating a website and soliciting donations to help hospital employees
lobby against the formula - laden diaper bags nationwide.
Not exact matches
Then add in the
formula lobby / marketing and women being socialized
against breastfeeding, even sometimes from alleged breastfeeding proponents.
Nestlé has formed the Infant & Pediatric Nutrition Association of the Philippines with
formula companies Abbott Laboratories, Fonterra Brands, Mead Johnson Nutrition and Wyeth to
lobby against the existing marketing requirements — yet Nestlé and other companies cite anti-trust regulations when called on to mutually agree to stop violations of the international minimum standards adopted by the World Health Assembly.
Not surprisingly,
formula makers — Abbott, Nestle and Mead Johnson — are
lobbying hard
against the provision.