Event

World Health Assembly vote on the infant formula code

Vote of 21 May 1981 in which the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, 118 to 1.

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Abbott Laboratories 23 Apr 1981 urged the White House to vote no Primary record 1

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23 Apr 1981 Abbott Laboratories intervened in World Health Assembly vote on the infant formula code
21 May 1981 World Health Assembly vote on the infant formula code

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Letter from Joseph S. Jenckes, Abbott Laboratories, to Lyn Nofziger, The White House, 23 April 1981 (Reagan Library, WHORM IT102, Box 36), Abbott Laboratories, 23 Apr 1981. Primary record
The U.S. Government should not abstain from voting on this Code, but should strongly oppose the Code and vote
World Health Organization: Assembly Resolution on a Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (WHA34.22), International Legal Materials 20(4), American Society of International Law, Jul 1981. Scholarship & press
The Resolution was adopted on May 21, 1981, by a vote of 118 in favor to one against (United States), with 3 abstentions (Argentina, Japan, Republic of Korea).
Bottle-feeding, good or bad? UN agency takes critical vote (Richard M. Harley), The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 1981. Scholarship & press
The White House has decided to oppose the code, according to a State Department spokesman.
International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes (WHO publication page), World Health Organization, 1981. Primary record
It adopted the code, as proposed, on 21 May by 118 votes.

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