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NUTRICIA ALERT
 

IBFAN-ICDC recently received a complaint about a TV news item on a
commercial campaign by Nutricia in China to start in March.  The Dutch
multinational plans to give away free CDs to mothers in China if they
buy
Nutricia baby food.  IBFAN-ICDC calls on Nutricia to put an immediate
halt
to this campaign because the promotion of baby food violates Article
5.4 of
the International Code as well as the Chinese Rules Governing the
Administration of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes. 

 
We urge Nutricia to heed this alert and call on all supporters of
breastfeeding and the International Code to put pressure on the company
to
stop the CD gift campaign. 

Please send your protest to Jan Bennink, CEO, NUMICO, the parent
company of
Nutricia, at  press at numico.com

 

We also call upon the Ministry of Health in China and all relevant
government ministries and agencies both in China and in the Netherlands
to
stop Nutricia from undermining China's infant feeding policy with a
campaign
of free gifts designed to entice Chinese mothers into purchasing
Nutricia's
products and in the process, discourage breastfeeding. 

 
Over 20,000,000 babies are born in China annually and Nutricia will, in
its
own words, have "gold" in its hands if this campaign proceeds as
planned.  

 

For further information on this alert, contact:

 

Annelies Allain 

IBFAN/ICDC
email:  <mailto:ibfanpg at tm.net.my> ibfanpg at tm.net.my 

IBFAN website: www.ibfan.org 
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