Why has the promotion of baby formula been banned?

This means that you no longer get totally incorrect answers from the “pretties” manning the free-hand out booths in supermarkets.
What’s the purpose of this law?
I think it would be better if they forbade selling untested baby-food products. Remember what happened in China with the poisonous milk powder?
The government should teach Thai mothers about feeding milk to their children. My neighbour’s teenage boy has to drink more than a litre of milk a day because she wants him to be tall and strong like a farang. That’s not healthy at all, and I also wonder if Thai milk is that healthy.
One problem for sure is that, as a teen, he is at the age where the Thai tendency towards lactose intolerance begins. As many as 51 per cent of Thai adults are lactose intolerant, according to one study, and up to 90 per cent do not produce enough lactase, the enzyme required to break down lactose, so while not qualifying as “intolerant”, they may still have issues with regular dairy.
The good news is that domestic lactose-free milk is now available, as well as some imports. Also fermented milk – which I had rarely seen before coming to Thailand, but is sold everywhere here, has much or all of its lactose broken down in the fermentation process – so that mum can keep “raising up” her son without causing him other troubles.
Ben Miller