Aug. 1-7 was World Breastfeeding Week in the United States. The theme for 2006 was "Code Watch: 25 years of Protecting Breastfeeding."
The "Code" is short for the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. It is a set of recommendations written in 1981 by the World Health Organization, intended to be a standard to regulate marketing by companies that profit when mothers don't breastfeed (primarily infant formula companies).
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