Sentences with phrase «undermined by formula companies»

Unfortunately, their ability to do so is being undermined by formula companies, and by the lack of support and leadership from government in protecting them via legislation.

Not exact matches

If companies abided by the rules and scrapped these promotional budgets, breastfeeding would not be undermined and formula could be cheaper for those parents who use it.»

In addition to advertising, the main way that companies undermine breastfeeding is by influencing health workers — pediatricians, neo-natologysts, family doctors, midwives through training, dinners and sponsorship — including fully paid trips abroad and donations to Maternity Hospitals who order formula.

This is something Baby Milk Action would normally welcome and we would expect a strong line to be taken on baby food companies contributing to unnecessary death and suffering by undermining breastfeeding and misleading parents who use formula.

As a quick summary, the WHO Code seeks to stem the outrageous marketing techniques used by infant formula manufacturers and related companies to undermine breastfeeding globally, despite such companies» clear knowledge of the WHO Code.

I was catching up on my desperately neglected Google Reader and came across a post by Dagmar Bleasdale in which she discussed the Similac (a formula company) Application which is said to help with breastfeeding — which I agree is undermining and misleading.