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The Baby Feeding Law Group - flier
Report aggressive baby food marketing
Text of the UK Law
Hard Sell Formula
Hard Sell Formula: Aggressive marketing practices exposed
Follow-on formulas:are they necessary? should they be promoted? (Page 1 and Page 2)
Why the UK baby feeding law must be changed
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Julie Crawford Award 2008: Nominations for health visitors who have been exemplary in protecting breastfeeding are being sought until 30th September 2008.

Government consultation: Assessing the Impact of the Commercial World on Children's Wellbeing - A Call for Evidence (deadline 12 July 2008).

Baby Milk Action press release 2 June 2008: Baby milk companies attack UK government recommendation to warn parents of formula risks. Results of the Guidance Notes consultation.

BFLG monitoring report May 2008

Media Watch - Sunday Herald 20 January 2008: Legal challenge to baby-milk law.

Press release 21 November 2007: Reaction from BFLG members to the UK Government formula regulations

Media Watch - British Medical Journal 20 October 2007: Government should restrict advertising of baby milk products, say campaigners.

Protecting breastfeeding - Protecting babies fed on formula: Read the Baby Feeding Law Group report to the government's consultation on the UK baby milk law - with monitoring evidence showing why the law needs to be strengthened, legal arguments and responses to specific questions in the consultation. For a detailed line-by-line analysis of the proposed regulations click here for a pdf and here for a word document.

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