Sentences with phrase «with formula companies»

It is difficult to see how forming partnerships with formula companies serves the needs of children.

We respectfully request that you do your part in safeguarding the wellbeing of Ottawa's mothers and children by adhering to the tenets of the International Code and severing your ties with formula companies that seek to contravene it.

The 2016 report on the implementation of the International Code on Marketing of Breast - Milk Substitutes found that the UK — despite having one of the biggest formula milk industries in the world — had only «a few provisions in law» to deal with formula companies who aggressively market their products.

Hospitals sign exclusive contracts with formula companies to distribute what are deceptively named «breastfeeding support kits,» which include, of all things, formula.

Last time I checked, doctors are supposed to encourage mothers to breastfeed because they aren't in cahoots with the formula companies like they once were back in the early»70s.

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.

We at INFACT Canada fail to see how it is not a conflict of interest for an organization dedicated to the protection of infant health to form an alliance with a formula company, especially an organization such as yours which is combatting SIDS.

I / my agency, organization, business is in compliance with the WHO Code in that I / we do not promote infant formula, accept free formula samples, provide formula company pamphlets / DVDs, or other materials (i.e., prescription pads, notepads, etc. with formula company names / logos) to mothers, or have words or pictures idealizing formula in any of the materials I / we give to moms.

Please write to the CPS and ask them to reconsider their relationship with the formula companies.

The Philippines, where the government has been fighting a long, drawn - out battle with formula companies who want unrestricted marketing (to the point where a government lawyer was assassinated), and where Nestle have been involved in opposing key provisions of formula marketing restrictions (more here).

New Zealand, Australia, UK, USA, Canada, and other some European countries sided with the formula companies but Italy, Greece, Austria, Croatia, the Netherlands, Philippines, United Arab Emirates and all of Latin America and Africa, as well as non-governmental organizations including the International Confederation of Nurses opposed the recommended change.

We respectfully request that you do your part in safeguarding the wellbeing of Barrie's mothers and children by adhering to the tenets of the International Code and severing your ties with formula companies that seek to contravene it.

We respectfully request that the CPS not form any partnerships with formula companies and suggest that the CPS familiarize itself with its own obligations under the Code, specifically WHA Resolution 49.15 which states «financial support for professionals working in infant and young child health [should] not create conflicts of interest.»

The assertion that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is part of an «unethical alliance» with formula companies is outrageous and wrong.

Allying itself with a formula company sends mixed messages to parents, and is a tacit endorsement of a practice which contributes to the sydrome it is trying to fight.