The International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes: synthesis of reports on action taken ‎1981-1990

Overview

On 21 May 1981, by resolution WHA34.22, the Thirty-fourth World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitute in the form of a recommendation, in the sense of Article 23 of the WHO Constitution.  Since then, in accordance with Article 11, paragraph 7, the Director-General of WHO has reported in even years on the status of the Code's implementation.  In addition, in keeping with the Assembly's request made in resolution WHA34.22, the Director-General reported to the Thirty-sixth World Health Assembly in May 1983 on the status of compliance with the Code at country, regional and global levels.  Information in each of the six reports to the Health Assembly in the present document is to provide an overall picture of the steps that more than 150 countries and territories have taken during the last decade - individually, and in some cases collectively, through regional and interregional forums - to give effect to the principles and aim of the International Code.