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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2004           Nigeria still not BMS-compliant -Dr. Akunyili By Abdulrauf Ibrahim, Abuja Nigeria has been listed among the countries that are currently not recorded internaitonally on the Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitute (BMS) compliant due to it lack of available data on code monitoring. The Director General of NAFDAC, Dr. (Mrs.) Dora N. Akunyili who disclosed this at a two- day pre- pilot survey training workshop on the Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitute (BMS) in Abuja, lamented that lack of monitoring code of marketing BMS has resulted in Nigerians selling for the purpose of sale, tins of baby food with cassava flour. Dr. Akunyili therefore charged all participants at the workshop to wake up to their responsibilities and work together to ensure that Nigeria progresses in the area of code monitoring. �We must erase this shameful record, and set the pace for other African countries as we have done in salt iodization and food fortification,� she maintained. According to her, the aim of the code is to contribute to the safe feeding and better nutrition of babies and to protect mothers and act of breast feeding from aggressive marketing of baby food. She, however, stated that, NAFDAC does not ban baby foods, but only bans or restricts certain ways of their promotion which mislead mothers to believing that these foods are as good as a mothers� milk. Commenting on mother-to-Child-Transmission (MTCT) of HIV through breastfeeding, the director general said there is a need now, more than ever before, to ensure code compliance in the area of high HIV prevalence. �This workshop is geared towards training NAFDAC staff in readiness for the pilot survey, as well as commencement of proper routine monitoring of the code on BMS,� she highlited. SITE TOOLS Print This Page   EMAIL THIS PAGE Friend's Name: Friend's  Email: Your Name: Your Email:           � Triumph Publishing Company Limited 2004

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