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[ID] 890 [Interest Areas] Concerned Citizen Other Areas: Mother who has breastfed three children [Comment] To be truly breastfeeding friendly, the medical industry must cut ties with the formula industry. Instead of being bedfellows with formula companies, professional associations should diligently rout out such blatant and harmful conflicts of interest. Until a woman is not bombarded with formula propoganda from the time she is a girl, until pregnant mothers are not surrounded by formula advertisements in their OBs offices, magazines and television shows, mothers are going to continue to assume that formula is just as good, exactly as the formula companies imply. If the United States would finally get serious and implement the WHO Code for the Marketing of Breastmilk Subtitutes, ending the harmful relationship between care providers and formula companies to help create a truly breastfeeding friendly medical industry would be exponentially easier. Professional associations like the APA are acting unethically in continuing to encourage and accept the marketing of formula to their clients. [Topic] 
Maternal and Infant Care Practices: Prenatal, Hospital, and Post-Delivery Care
Call To Action on Breastfeeding
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