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Helping Themselves: Breastfeeding Advice Nestle-Style

November 4, 2009




This is a guest post by Erin, a breastfeeding counselor who teaches women how to succeed at breastfeeding. This post is a reflection of her opinion on Nestle's breastfeeding advice. Read what follows and decide for yourself what the company's true intentions are. Why would the world's largest infant formula company want to help mothers breastfeed? [...]

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Nestle Answers: Canada being a signatory to the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes means nothing

October 28, 2009




This is one of a series of posts that features Nestle’s answers to my questions that came out of the Nestle Family event. To access the other questions and answers, go to follow-up questions for Nestle and click on the questions you are interested in. Answers will be posted as they are received and analyzed. [...]

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Are we asking the wrong people to comply with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes?

September 14, 2009




The World Health Organization (WHO)'s International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes was adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981 as a minimum requirement to ensure appropriate feeding of infants and young children. According to the WHO 's FAQs on the International Code: The protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding rank among the most [...]

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