The Indian Academy of Pediatrics, the largest association of pediatricians in India, has sent an email to all its members who warn them not to participate in any event or program that violates the law of substitute for children’s milk (IMS). The mail also explained that the prohibition of sponsorship under the IMS Law includes “not only the manufacturers of children’s milk, children’s foods and food bottles, but also companies/people participating in marketing/promotion, sales, exports, imports, supplies, supplies and distribution.”
After the recent controversy about Abbott Nutritiona multinational manufacturer of Children’s formula sponsoring a “National Pediatric Summit“In a five -star hotel in Dehradun, the Network for the Promotion of Breastfeeding of India (BPNI) that is glasted as an organization to monitor compliance with the law, had written to IAP requesting the officers to” send a quick communication to alert all members who do not participate in the summit proposed by Abbott by Abbott of March 9 in Dehradun. ” to National Neonat NeonaticolotolotolotoloTolotolotolotolotolotolotolotomite.
Meanwhile, the Dehradun hotel, with 263 rooms, is completely reserved and the summit is expected to begin on Saturday. “We have filed a complaint with the Local Police in Dehradun and have promised to investigate the matter. Any violation of IMS’s law is a recognizable crime or a crime or crime that a police officer can investigate and arrest without a court order,” explained the national call of BPNI Nupur Bidla. Another member of BPNI of Gurgaon, Dr. DiNESH Khosla, has complained to the National Medical Commission that seeks an “appropriate action” against doctors who attend the Abbott’s summit for violating section 6.8 that deals with the relationship of doctors with the industry of the pharmaceutical sector and allied health sector.
The IAP mail declared that he continued to an email sent on September 10, 2019 to all IAP members and another sent on August 27, 2022 to all the bearers of the branch asking them not to participate in any event or program that violates the IMS law. “IAP firmly faces the law and urges each member to comply with the law and refrain from participating in any case or programs/sponsorship that violates the IMS law to ensure that all laws that benefit children in the country are followed properly for their safety,” he said.
“Again and again, many new companies are emerging, especially the small premises, which are under the IMS law, especially those that make foods for babies or complementary foods,” IAP warned that offers a detailed list of the type of companies or agencies covered by the IMS law, which included manufacturers of food bottles and complementary foods and foods. The indicative list included Abbott Healthcare, which appears as a manufacturer of three popular brands of children’s formulas.
The IAP letter recommended that its members “verify all sponsors or taxpayers for their direct or indirect connection with companies or persons covered by the IMS law” and to obtain a company in writing from them that were not “directly or indirectly related to the manufacture, sales and distribution of any product that occurs under the vision of the IMS law” and that the company was not established by a commercial operator (s) that he did not have the concern for the sister of the IMS coast. “IMS ACT.
