THE absolute ban on the promotion and advertisement of breast milk substitutes will continue after the Supreme Court opted not to issue a restraining order on the implementation of the Milk Code.
Instead, the high court ordered Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Health undersecretaries Dr. Ethelyn Nieto, Dr. Margarita Galon, Alexander Padilla and Dr. Jade F. Del Mundo to comment within 10 days on the petition filed by an international health lobby group seeking the nullification of the revised implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Administrative Order 2006-0012 issued last May 16.
The assailed AO revised a 1986 law, Executive Order No. 51, or the Milk Code, which had been passed in the cooperation with the milk industry to regulate the use of breast milk substitutes.
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