{
  "id": 267235,
  "title": "MEDICAL ETHICS: Formula firms targeting healthcare workers to shape feeding advice",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/medical-ethics-formula-firms-targeting-healthcare-workers-to-shape",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-07T14:19:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Maverick",
    "slug": "daily-maverick",
    "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-07-formula-firms-targeting-healthcare-workers-to-shape-feeding-advice/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Healthcare professionals were urged to safeguard parents and children from the commercial milk formula industry's influence during a panel discussion held to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. The discussion, organized by the Healthy Living Alliance (Heala) in conjunction with the World Health Organization's World Breastfeeding Week, aimed to evaluate progress and scale effective strategies for improving breastfeeding outcomes. Topics covered included how CMF marketing infiltrates healthcare workers and the impact on parents' feeding decisions.",
  "summary": "Experts called on healthcare workers to promote breastfeeding and protect parents and children from the commercial milk formula industry’s influences at a panel discussion for World Breastfeeding Week.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}