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Infant Feeding and Climate Change. Name: Zhang Shuyi Country: P.R. China. Status of Formula Feeding practice. Mixture feeding is very common in China No data on FF 27.6% EBF6 → about 72.4% FF6 Marketing promotion Universal fear of breast-milk insufficiency
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Infant Feeding and Climate Change Name: Zhang Shuyi Country: P.R. China
Status of Formula Feeding practice Mixture feeding is very common in China • No data on FF • 27.6% EBF6 → about 72.4% FF6 • Marketing promotion • Universal fear of breast-milk insufficiency • Weak awareness of hazard of formula
Status of Commercial Complementary feeding practice • Feeding babies home made food is major. • Commercial CF: • Cereal, muddy flesh/vegetable/fruit, juice, biscuit • International and domestic brands • Nestle, Heinz, Biostime • Yashili, Beingmate
Trends in formula feeding and commercial complementary feeding • Formula feeding • In urban, mix feeding, MNC, imported formula • In rural, domestic formula • Commercial complementary feeding • In urban, not much changing • In rural, very low consumption
Possible Green House Gas (GHG) Emissions • Please calculate an estimated GHG emission due to PIF in a year, applying this formula: • One batch (4,356 kg) of milk-based powdered infant formula (PIF) estimates GHG emission of 66.7 tons carbon dioxide equivalent. • Package, shipment, distribution and storage • Water, heatingg and washing • advertisement