Hello Marit,

I know the statement that you refer to, it was stated by Frank Oski, MD, retired editor of the Journal of Pediatrics: "Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine."

http://www.kellymom.com/writings/breastfeeding/bfquotes.html
http://www.hmbasa.org.za/Risks%20of%20formula%20feeding.pdf
http://www.lllusa.org/wbw/quotes.php
- and for all your Dutch readers, the quote is translated here:
http://www.zorgvoorborstvoeding.nl/algemeen/stichting-zorg-voor-borstvoeding

Hope to have helped,
I will have a look at the article you found at amningsbloggen.

Kind regards,
Heidi Akkers IBCLC in pp
the Netherlands


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Op 25 nov. 2011 wk 47, om 08:17 heeft Marit Olanders het volgende geschreven:

> Abandonment of breastfeeding during the 20th century has been called "The
> world's largest experiment without controls", obviously in a 1976
> article, Hendricks
> RG. Socio-economic and psychological factors in breastfeeding motivation. Bull.
> Int. Ped. Assoc. 1976; 6: 37±44
> 
> But I also find the expression in a Swedish book from 1973, referring to
> formula industry taking over infant feeding the first year, Professor
> Vahlquist, told about it while mentioning an 1961 article about declining
> breastfeeding in the Western world. for those of you who know Swedish:
> http://amningsbloggen.blogspot.com/2011/11/vad-experimentet-bestod-i.html
> 
> Can anyone here please help me trace back "The world's largest experiment
> without controls" to its origin?
> 
> Marit Olanders
> bf counsellor and bf writer in Sweden
> 
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