Ulaanbaatar
Promotion of formula milk to be restricted
Politics
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Today, May 05, Parliament made its first hearing of bill on Infant food and food products at its plenary meeting. Feeding infants up to 3 years old with mother’s breast milk ensures babies to grow up healthy. However, babies have to be fed with imitation milk when the mother cannot feed her baby. The bill aims to regulate the use of breast-milk substitutes, including infant formula, depending on babies' needs with doctor’s advice, said MP Ts.Tsogzolmaa.
During the first hearing of the bill, votes were held on 44 proposals and MPs backed proposals to ban placing labels containing information that lessens the significance of mother’s breast milk, on packages or bottles and boxes of breast milk substitutes. Instead, these kinds of products should have a label, warning that the product does not contain all nutrients, minerals and vitamins, baby requires. MPs were also in favor of ban on gifting breast milk substitutes or supplement products or supplying the products at discounted price to children’s hospitals, health care centers or orphanages and placing advertisement posters in areas of health organizations.
The bill was forwarded to the relevant parliamentary standing committee for the final hearing.
During the first hearing of the bill, votes were held on 44 proposals and MPs backed proposals to ban placing labels containing information that lessens the significance of mother’s breast milk, on packages or bottles and boxes of breast milk substitutes. Instead, these kinds of products should have a label, warning that the product does not contain all nutrients, minerals and vitamins, baby requires. MPs were also in favor of ban on gifting breast milk substitutes or supplement products or supplying the products at discounted price to children’s hospitals, health care centers or orphanages and placing advertisement posters in areas of health organizations.
The bill was forwarded to the relevant parliamentary standing committee for the final hearing.
B.Ooluun
