Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Marketing of Artificial Baby Milk in Aus - a clear summary on how to report breaches

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL CODE ?
A page that explains the code, how it was developed, what weight it holds: http://www.ibfan.org/english/issue/code01.html

How breastfeeding is undermined:
http://www.ibfan.org/english/issue/bfundermined01.html
Explains the ways in which formula marketing endangers breastfeeding success.

Monitoring the baby feeding industry.
http://www.ibfan.org/english/codewatch/monitor01.html
Gives guidelines for monitoring and reporting breeches of the code

A brief guide to spotting a violation.
http://www.ibfan.org/english/codewatch/monitor02.html

APMAIF (Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula):
Annual Reports cataloguing complaints they receive: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/content/health-pubhlth-strateg-foodpolicy-apmaif.htm

A copy of a complaint form put together by the ABA can be downloaded at http://www.breastfeeding.asn.au/advocacy/maif-incident-report-form-06.pdf

Guidelines for lodging breeches from APMAIF: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/content/health-pubhlth-publicat-document-brfeed-complaints.htm

NB: previously posted elsewhere by someone else

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