Resources

The Federal Register is the daily journal of the United States government. Each day Federal agencies publish documents in the Federal Register, including proposed rules, final rules, public notices, and Presidential actions.You can subscribe to the daily listing of these documents which usually offer opportunities for submitting comments relative to governmental rule-making.
https://www.federalregister.gov/

How a bill becomes a law
https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made

These websites track federal legislation (bills and laws). You can look up specific bills and laws as well as search for bills related to topics of interest to you such as breastfeeding, lactation, etc.
https://www.govtrack.us/
https://www.congress.gov/

The Federal Register is the daily journal of the United States government. Each day Federal agencies publish documents in the Federal Register, including proposed rules, final rules, public notices, and Presidential actions.You can subscribe to the daily listing of these documents which usually offer opportunities for submitting comments relative to governmental rule-making.
https://www.federalregister.gov/

How a bill becomes a law
https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made

Readings of interest relative to the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (the Code):

Don’t push it: why the infant formula industry must clean up its act
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/node/13218/pdf/dont-push-it.pdf

Reducing digital marketing of infant formula
https://www.phaionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IF-Digital-Marketing-Full-Report-Nov-2020.pdf

Milking it: how milk formula companies are putting profits before sciencehttps://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Milking-it-Final-report-CM.pdf

Old Tricks, New Opportunities: How Companies Violate the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes and Undermine Maternal and Child Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/5/2381/htm?fbclid=IwAR3QDWqABz6EfS64xdsb0-hLfGROzmtp0_YV4M_09qjsU_5VPvvlauiJ8us

Letter to FDA on misbranded formula products from CSPI and UCONN
https://cspinet.org/sites/default/files/attachment/FDA_Enforcement_Letter_on_Transition_Formulas_2.10.21.pdf

Your opportunity to ask FDA to act on misbranded formula productshttps://action.cspinet.org/page/72740/action/1?ea.url.id=5155293&forwarded=true

CSPI webpage on selling surgery drinks
https://cspinet.org/news/fda-urged-stop-formula-companies-selling-sugary-drinks-%E2%80%9Cformula%E2%80%9D-toddlers-20210209

Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32119-X/fulltext

Infant formula market
https://www.fortunebusinessinsights.com/industry-reports/infant-formula-market-101498

Tailored infant formula-personalization trend
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2021/01/22/BLC-launches-solution-for-tailored-infant-formula-as-it-spots-growing-personalization-trend

The problem with growing corporate concentration and power in the global food system.
Clapp, J. (2021). Nature Food, 2, 404-408.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00297-7

Globalization, first-foods systems transformations and corporate power: a synthesis of literature and data on the market and political practices of the transnational baby food industry.
Baker, P et al. (2021). Globalization and Health, 17, 58.
https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-021-00708-1