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3 Transnat'l Law. 697 (1990)
The Nestle Infant Formula Controversy: Restricting the Marketing Practices of Multinational Corporations in the Third World

handle is hein.journals/tranl3 and id is 711 raw text is: The Nestle Infant Formula Controversy:
Restricting the Marketing Practices of
Multinational Corporations in the Third
World
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION  ..............................   698
I.   INFANT FORMULA IN THE THIRD WORLD ........ 701
A.    Comparison of Breastmilk and Infant
Formula For Third World Infants and
Mothers  ........................   701
B.   The Danger of Marketing Infant Formula in
Developing Countries ...............  708
1.   Internal Problems with Product Use  708
2.   Third  World  Susceptibility to
Marketing Strategies ........... 713
II.   NESTLE S.A.'s INVOLVEMENT IN THE INFANT
FORMULA PROBLEM ........................ 718
A.    Nestle S.A., the MNC ...............  718
B.    Tracing the Historical Development of
Nestle's Problems as a Marketer of Infant
Formula  ........................   720
III. THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND ThE
WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY ACTION ........... 724
A.    WHO and WHA ...................    724
B.   Action Taken by WHO in Response to the
Infant Formula Problem .............  726
C.   Evaluation of the International Code of
Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes ..... 728
D.    Problems with the Code .............  729

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