tailieunhanh - International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes

A variety of factors influence the prevalence and duration of breast-feeding. The Twenty-seventh World Health Assembly, in 1974, noted the general decline in breast-feeding in many parts of the world, related to sociocultural and other factors including the promotion of manufactured breast-milk substitutes, and urged "Member countries to review sales promotion activities on baby foods to introduce appropriate remedial measures, including advertisement codes and legislation where necessary".1 The issue was taken up again by the Thirty-first World Health Assembly in May 1978. Among its recommendations were that Member States should give priority to preventing malnutrition in infants and young children by, inter alia, supporting and promoting breast-feeding, taking legislative. | International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes World Health Organization Geneva 1981 ISBN 92 4 154160 1 World Health Organization 1981 Publications of the World Health Organization enjoy copyright protection in accordance with the provisions of Protocol 2 of the Universal Copyright Convention. For rights of reproduction or translation of WHO publications in part or in toto application should be made to the Office of Publications World Health Organization Geneva Switzerland. The World Health Organization welcomes such applications. The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country territory city of area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. 2 Contents Introduction International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes Annex 1. Resolutions of the Executive Board at its sixty-seventh session and of the Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly on the on the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes Annex 2. Resolution of the Thirty-third World Health Assembly on infant and young child feeding Annex 3. Excerpts from the introductory statement by the Representative of the Executive Board to the Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly on the subject of the draft international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes