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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has come up with stricter recommendations to encourage breast feeding of young children.The UN agency has suggested all its member countries to frame stringent law and not allow any product marketed as a breast milk substitute. Besides, any product for infants and young children should carry messages highlighting the importance of continued breast feeding for up to two years.Products that function as breast-milk substitutes should not be promoted. WHO`s secretariat said in its report, which is part of the provisional agenda items for the assembly. The health assembly will begin next week from May 23-28 in Geneva to discuss new health related issues and review the progress of the goals set by it last year.Though India has a national law - Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottles, and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act - the recommen -dations by the WHO secretariat may push the government to make it more stringent with increased restrictions on sales of milk substitutes.
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