The Code also guides health care systems and health care workers regarding procurement of equipment, materials, education, and information from the manufacturers/distributors of infant formula for the purpose of supporting mothers
who do not breastfeed or who do so partially (Section 6.2, p.11; Section 6.8, p.12; Section 7, p.12; Section 8.2, p.13). Nurses teach women how to safely feed formula to infants (Section 6.5, p.11). In accord with The Code, AWHONN permits formula manufacturers to provide information at in-person professional meetings and in professional-facing publications. AWHONN, by its own policies, further restricts formula marketing within its professional-facing publications to only those advertisements that also promote breastfeeding as the optimal infant feeding method and human milk as the optimal food for infants within
the overall messaging.