A Critical Review of the Marketing Claims of Infant Formula Products in the United States

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 437-442

  Belamarich, Peter F ^a   Bochner, Risa E ^a   Racine, Andrew D ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

advertising as a topic; breast milk; breastfeeding; colic; Food and Drug Administration; infant formula; WIC program

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN HYDROLYSATE; SOYBEAN PROTEIN;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; CRYING; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTIZING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INFANTILE COLIC; PACKAGING; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; FOOD PACKAGING; INFANT; MARKETING; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FOOD LABELING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MARKETING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962787160     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922815589913     Document Type: Review

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