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Appendix 3
Safe Feeding and Choking  - Grey 
Literature 
Canada 
Preventing choking and suffocation in children (2012) 
https://www.cps.ca/en/documents/position/preventing-choking-suffocation-children 
Prevent Choking in Babies and Young Children: For Child Care Providers (2017) 
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthlinkbc-files/prevent-choking-baby-child 
Nutrition for Healthy Term Infants: Recommendations from Six to 24 Months 
*discusses choking and safe feeding
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canada-food-guide/resources/infant-
feeding/nutrition-healthy-term-infants-recommendations-birth-six-months/6-24-months.html

Australia 
EAT FOR HEALTH: Infant Feeding Guidelines - Information for health workers (2012) 
https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/the_guidelines/n56_infant_feeding_gu
idelines.pdf 

GET UP & GROW: HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD - 
DIRECTORS/COORDINATORS BOOK - Choking risks for toddlers and young children 
https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/gug-director-
toc~gug-foodsafety~gug-foodsafety-choking 
 
United States 
under the Official Information Act 1982 
Policy Statement—Prevention of Choking Among Children (2010) 
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2010/02/22/peds.2009-
2862.full.pdf 

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United Kingdom 
Unintentional injuries: prevention in children under 5 years (2017) 
*page 5 Choking
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_da
ta/file/595017/Preventing_unintentional_injuries_guide.pdf

Reducing unintentional injuries in and around the home among children under five years 
(2018) 
*choking mentioned in a few places

Appendix 3
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_da
ta/file/696646/Unintentional_injuries_under_fives_in_home.pdf 

International 
 
Safekids Worldwide Choking and Strangulation 
https://www.safekids.org/choking 
 
New Zealand 
 
Does a ‘baby-led’ approach to complementary feeding alter the risk of choking and growth 
faltering in infants aged 0-12 months? (2016) 
https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/6820 
1982 
 
Is Baby-led Weaning a feasible method for introducing complementary foods to infants in 
Act 
New Zealand? (2014) 
https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/4624 
Information 
Official 
the 
under 
Released