Okay I found the report (from 9 August on the aph website - aust parl house).
These may interest ppl:
(from about 14% receiving formula in 1995 to 23% in 2005, and from about 4% receiving solids in 1995 to 6% in 2005.)The most recent data on rates of infant formula use is from the
National Health Survey in 2001. This data showed that there was an
increase in formula and solids use from 1995 to 2001 in infants three
months or less in age.
Great, Australia is going backwards.
Significant evidence was provided to the committee that
demonstrated infant formula manufacturers in Australia advertise
their products in a manner which would clearly breach the WHO
Code.I guess we can only hope that the govt sees fit to implement the committee's recommendation on this:As an example, the committee is quite concerned by the practice of
manufacturers using health professionals as surrogate marketers of
their products via distribution of free infant formula sample packs to
new mothers.
I am so cross that in Australia we are going backwards in the care of our mothers and children for the sake of a handful of manufacturing companies.Recommendation 22
8.44 That the Department of Health and Ageing adopt the World Health
Organisation’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk
Substitutes and subsequent World Health Assembly resolutions.




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