Gov. Mike Rounds has proclaimed this week World Breast-feeding Week in South Dakota. The signing recognizes the importance of breast-feeding as a health issue.
This year, World Breast-feeding Week is celebrating the signing of the Innocenti Declaration on the Protection, Promotion and Support of Breast-feeding. The theme for 2006 is "Code Watch: 25 years of Protecting Breast-feeding."
The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes was adopted in 1981 by the World Health Assembly. Also known as The Code, it is an international public health recommendation that seeks to give mothers pure facts about breast-feeding, "free of aggressive infant formula marketing influences," so that they can make well-informed feeding decisions, according to a release.
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