"Sara Bernard" <[log in to unmask]>
> Don;t know about anyone else, but I'm sure there's more than just a
few
> dollars to be earned from providing moms with probiotics. Sounds
like
> something the artificial milk manufacturers produce? And I don't
even want
> to think about the marketing advantages to them if they start doing
this :-(

Hi to everyone from Finland, the promised land of probiotics.

I could'nt find out who is sponsoring the Salminen, Isolauri et.al.
research in Turku University. But it looks like a big Finnish milk and
formula manufacturer Valio is one of their sponsors, as they've used
Gefilus probiotics manufactured by Valio in their research. Of course
there is a big industry behind the probiotics research and the aim of
the research is to develop new "functional foods" to be sold. I just
found an old newspaper story that the research group was awarded by a
big Swiss milk producers' organisation as well. And that's not
breastmilk producers I'm afraid ;).

Minna Stenroos [log in to unmask]
nonprofessional bf fan
happily lurking in Helsinki, Finland

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