This study evaluated the effect of a 12-week social marketing intervention conducted in 2012 promoting 1% milk use relying on paid advertising. Weekly milk sales data by type of milk (whole, 2%, 1%, and nonfat milk) were collected from 80 supermarkets in the Oklahoma City media market, the intervention market, and 66 supermarkets in the Tulsa media market (TMM), the comparison market. The effec...

Noting the general decline of breastfeeding with the increasing use of formula-feeding, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, in 1979, recommended the adoption of an international code of marketing of infant formula and other products used as breast-milk substitutes.2 The International Code was adopted by the World Health Assembly (including New Zealand) in May 1981. ‘The aim of this Code i...

A baby milk market was created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and was conceived through the mutual attraction of the manufacturers and doctors. This has partly attributed to the change from breast to artificial feeding. This study was conducted to determine whether marketing had any effect on infant feeding practices. Fifty Malay mothers whose last child was aged less than...

Milk As regards milk, I have made some calculations from Tables 3 and 4 of the paper of Dr Magee and his collaborators (Bransby, Magee, Bowley & Stanton, 1947). What in effect is asked for, in that paper, is the provision, in 1946, for liquid consumption of almost 1700 x 1o6 gal. of milk, or 0.774 pt./head/day on the average, and, in 1964, of some 1720 x 1o6 gal. or about 0.75 pt./head/day. In ...

OBJECTIVE In 1981 the World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes (the Code) to support breastfeeding. Despite improving trends, Hong Kong has low rates of breastfeeding compared to other developed countries. METHODS We surveyed companies marketing breast milk substitutes in Hong Kong to determine self-reported adherence to the Code. Comp...

Milk has an important role as a vehicle for rural development. Many factors are implicated in milk value chain and marketability in Egypt such as milk production practices, unorganized farmer community, seasonal fluctuation both in production and consumption, financial aspects of dairying, role of middlemen, infrastructure, price fixation and role of government agencies. Many governmental regul...

Donor human milk has been used in the United States for >90 years, but recent advances in human milk science and laboratory techniques have led to increasing use of this resource. Pediatricians began using donor human milk in the 1900s in response to anecdotal observation that premature infants had better health outcomes when receiving their own mothers' milk. Since then, a formalized human mil...

In many countries, goat farming is the important part from the economy point of the view; especially in the Mediterranean and Middle East region. Goat farming is well organized in France, Italy, Spain and Greece (Park and Haenlein, 2006). Industrialization of the goat milk is not well successed because of its poor and insufficient volume. From 1990, interest in the goat milk production is incre...