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[15 May 2007] - It was in 1977 that campaigners first called for a boycott of Nestlé because of its aggressive marketing of formula milk in the developing world. Thirty years on, have Nestlé and the other baby-milk firms cleaned up their act? An investigation by the Guardian newspaper suggests babies could be suffering from chronic malnutrition due to widespread misunderstanding about the health implications of bottle-feeding rather than breast-feeding. The report investigates whether, more than 25 years after the World Health Assembly (the decision-making body for WHO) adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes, calling it "a minimum requirement" to be adopted "in its entirety", Nestlé and other companies are still exploiting gaps in education to push their baby formula brands. Further information
pdf: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2079864,00.html