UK professional body the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has said it will no longer accept sponsorship from infant formula manufacturers, pending a review. The RCPCH is one of several bodies that have called for an end to marketing baby milk in plastic bottles. In a letter sent to the RCPCH, the signatories called the conference's choice of location a "market most vulnerable to predatory advertising" and said it was at the centre of many reported World Health Organisation Code violations.
UK professional body the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has said it will no longer accept sponsorship from infant formula manufacturers, pending a review. It followed criticism of Danone and Nestle's sponsorship of a RCPCH conference on breastfeeding in the Middle East and North Africa. In a letter sent to the RCPCH, the signatories called the conference's choice of location a "market most vulnerable to predatory advertising" and said it was at the centre of many reported World Health Organisation Code violations.