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Infant Feeding Today Pt. 3: Making a Baby-Friendly Culture Amid Formula Marketing

February 2, 2016
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From ‘Talkabout Baby’ by Ladybird Books, via sianuska.blogspot.com

THE TRUTH ABOUT FORMULA MARKETING

  • What Formula Companies Want You to Believe

MAKING A BABY-FRIENDLY CULTURE

  • Can You Support Formula Feeders and Fight Formula Marketing?

**Also check out Part One (Why Isn’t Every Baby Breastfed?) and Part Two (Cow-Made, Man-Made, or Mother-Made?) of this series.**

The Truth About Formula Marketing

Formula companies literally spend billions of dollars every year on marketing, which means it’s a really, really, really ingenious kind of marketing. If you don’t think their advertising practices are ‘so bad,’ that’s because they worked — they are, in fact, so good.

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List of Various Formula Recalls

March 25, 2014

Surpermarket in Guilderland, NY, via masslive.com

This is in no way a complete list. Why? Because the FDA doesn’t keep a permanent record of recalls, so they often disappear without trace after a short period of time. Still, from this brief list (if you consider it brief, comparatively at least), you’ll notice a pattern: it’s the same companies that have recalls….over and over and over and over again.

This is not a formula-bashing post. These are the facts, however, and anyone who’s responsible for feeding infants may find it useful to be aware of this. If you use formula, you might consider spending your money on a company that generates product for a smaller part of the market (Nestle, Mead Johnson, and Abbott are the major companies that account for a whopping 90% of U.S. formulas).

Without further ado, let’s get to know these companies’ track records.

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