Illegal commercial promotion of products competing with breastfeeding.
Karine Borges da SilvaMaria Inês Couto de OliveiraElisa Maria de Aquino LacerdaEnilce de Oliveira Fonseca SallyPublished in: Revista de saude publica (2020)
More than a fifth of commercial establishments promoted infant formulas, baby bottles and nipples, although this practice has been banned in Brazil for thirty years. We think it is necessary to train those managers. Government agencies must monitor commercial establishments in order to inhibit strategies of persuasion and induction to sales of these products, ensuring mothers' autonomy in the decision on the feeding of their children.