The Trump administration used threats at a world forum to try to block a measure … that endorsed breast-feeding. Health officials were stunned.
Sunday, July 8, 2018 12:30 PM EST
A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly by delegates at the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly in Geneva.
Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest and that countries should strive to limit misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.
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