San Fernando City, La Union (23 November) -- The Philippines strongly supports and promotes breastfeeding to achieve a healthier nutrition rate of infants from the day of birth and onwards, and the government also adheres to reasonably strict standards for the entry of infant milk formula products here in the country.
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III, being the point person, stood firm on defending the Philippine government as well as the revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Executive Order 51, otherwise known as the Milk Code.
The IRR, Duque explained was meant to "regulate indiscriminate advertising and promotion of products not founded on scientific evidence and studies."
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