March 2007
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Phillipines: UN Health expert blasts milk industry for seeking profit at cost of infant health
Posted by Vulie Kunene on 28 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Watch the Code
An independent United Nations rights expert today denounced a campaign by Filipino milk companies to promote breast-milk substitutes for manipulating UN data to protect their huge profits regardless of the interest of a country where 16,000 children under 5 died in 2003 from improper feeding practices including infant formula.
