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Recommendation adopted by the World Health Assembly on 21 May 1981 on how breast-milk substitutes, feeding bottles and teats may be marketed.

21 May 1981

International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes. Recommendation adopted by the World Health Assembly on 21 May 1981 on how breast-milk substitutes, feeding bottles and teats may be marketed.

1981

May 1981: Nestlé adopted International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

According to Nestlé. This is one side’s account, not established fact.

21 May 1981: World Health Assembly adopted International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

1984

Bangladesh adopted International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.

Bangladesh enacted its own law on the marketing of breast-milk substitutes in 1984; a new Act replaced it in 2013.

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