Milk maker denies WHO code breach
South China Morning Post
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
MAY CHAN
"Baby milk maker Wyeth (HK) defended itself yesterday against claims it had breached international rules by running TV adverts suggesting its formula milk helped make children smarter and healthier. The South China Morning Post reported yesterday how the company had been accused of breaching a World Health Organisation (WHO) code by breast-milk advocate Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Hong Kong Association. The association said that the nutrient value of "Promil Gold" had been exaggerated in an advert aired on TVB Jade. It had been suggested that drinking the product would make babies smart and healthy. The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes by the WHO says there should be no advertising on breast-milk substitutes and the use of images of babies on products should be banned. Wyeth medical affairs manager Sandra Lui Siu-hung said the advertisement concentrated on another milk product targeting children aged three to seven, and only showed one frame of "Promil Gold" along with other products."
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
BBC NEWS | Health | Safe birth hope for refugees
Tuesday, 25 February, 2003, 10:20 GMT
By Caroline Ryan
BBC News Online health staff
[Feature on Armenian refugees flooding into Azerbaijan and a program to help provide safer birth and breastfeeding information by UK charity HealthProm. Of note, the program is funded thus: "The three year programme, run by HealthProm, which carries out work across the former Soviet Union, and funded by GlaxoSmithKline is part of a national reproductive health strategy developed in conjunction with the Azerbaijan government. GSK now plans to put £220,000 into the "Safe Childbirth" initiative." - JC]
Tuesday, 25 February, 2003, 10:20 GMT
By Caroline Ryan
BBC News Online health staff
[Feature on Armenian refugees flooding into Azerbaijan and a program to help provide safer birth and breastfeeding information by UK charity HealthProm. Of note, the program is funded thus: "The three year programme, run by HealthProm, which carries out work across the former Soviet Union, and funded by GlaxoSmithKline is part of a national reproductive health strategy developed in conjunction with the Azerbaijan government. GSK now plans to put £220,000 into the "Safe Childbirth" initiative." - JC]
Monday, February 24, 2003
Beacon Journal | 02/22/2003 | Police field complaint about busty snow woman
Posted on Sat, Feb. 22, 2003 story
By CAROL BILICZKY
Akron Beacon Journal
"KENT, Ohio - Crystal Lynn went for realism when she built her snow woman - celery for the eyes, a carrot for the nose and two blobs of snow for the breasts. The last turned out to be a no-no, as someone complained to Kent police about what he called an indecent snow figure. And a police officer showed up at her apartment door minutes after she completed her work. "He said that I should cut off her breasts, but I said no woman wants that," Lynn, 35, said. She didn't want to knock down the snow woman. And the figure was too busty to be covered by a shirt. So Lynn opted to drape a ruffled maroon tablecloth around her shoulders." [ She should have latched on snow babies... - JC]
Posted on Sat, Feb. 22, 2003 story
By CAROL BILICZKY
Akron Beacon Journal
"KENT, Ohio - Crystal Lynn went for realism when she built her snow woman - celery for the eyes, a carrot for the nose and two blobs of snow for the breasts. The last turned out to be a no-no, as someone complained to Kent police about what he called an indecent snow figure. And a police officer showed up at her apartment door minutes after she completed her work. "He said that I should cut off her breasts, but I said no woman wants that," Lynn, 35, said. She didn't want to knock down the snow woman. And the figure was too busty to be covered by a shirt. So Lynn opted to drape a ruffled maroon tablecloth around her shoulders." [ She should have latched on snow babies... - JC]
Breast milk banks becoming a thing of the past
CTV.com
By Jennifer Tryon, CTV News Food Specialist
"Nature's perfect food may have a flaw after all: There's not enough of it. Human breast milk is in high demand.
Every three weeks, two Fedex boxes full of food for eight-month-old Tai'o Clifford arrives at his family's home in Toronto. Dozens of little glass jars filled with a yellowish substance are packed with dry ice. The meals for a month don't come cheap.
"It probably costs in the neighbourhood of about $700 Cdn a week to feed him breast milk," says the baby's father, Ian Clifford.
"It's not cheap at all. It's the best possible food for a baby and we really hoped that it would be more available in Canada for the people who need it."
Canada has one human milk bank, located at B.C. Women's Hospital. The milk is available for sick and premature babies, and sometimes to parents who adopt. The milk bank relies on donations from mothers with too much milk or who are willing to pump." [Let's hope this news item can be a springboard for action - JC]
CTV.com
By Jennifer Tryon, CTV News Food Specialist
"Nature's perfect food may have a flaw after all: There's not enough of it. Human breast milk is in high demand.
Every three weeks, two Fedex boxes full of food for eight-month-old Tai'o Clifford arrives at his family's home in Toronto. Dozens of little glass jars filled with a yellowish substance are packed with dry ice. The meals for a month don't come cheap.
"It probably costs in the neighbourhood of about $700 Cdn a week to feed him breast milk," says the baby's father, Ian Clifford.
"It's not cheap at all. It's the best possible food for a baby and we really hoped that it would be more available in Canada for the people who need it."
Canada has one human milk bank, located at B.C. Women's Hospital. The milk is available for sick and premature babies, and sometimes to parents who adopt. The milk bank relies on donations from mothers with too much milk or who are willing to pump." [Let's hope this news item can be a springboard for action - JC]
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