Resources
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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.
How a bill becomes a law
https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-
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.
Reducing digital marketing of infant formula
https://www.phaionline.org/wp-
Milking it: how milk formula companies are putting profits before sciencehttps://changingmarkets.org/
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-
Letter to FDA on misbranded formula products from CSPI and UCONN
https://cspinet.org/sites/
Your opportunity to ask FDA to act on misbranded formula productshttps://action.cspinet.org/
CSPI webpage on selling surgery drinks
https://cspinet.org/news/fda-
Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://www.thelancet.com/
Infant formula market
https://www.
Tailored infant formula-personalization trend
https://www.foodnavigator.com/
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/
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