Patti Rundall at Baby Milk Action sent me a hard copy of a recent 
newspaper article, this morning.  The article itself can be found on...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,2079757,00.html

... and deals with examining Nestle's claims that it doesn't WHO code 
break in Bangladesh and other resource poor countries.

However, what isn't there on the internet link, but is on the hard copy, 
is the printed 'response' to the article, by one Hilary Parsons, 
Nestle's head of corporate social responsibility.  My, how easily she 
must sleep at night.

Hilary responded with a robust dismissal of the report, which I won't 
bore you with, but a phrase she used struck me.

"The article also highlights the fact that a cake and a plastic pen were 
given to health professionals - as if such items would persuade the 
paediatricians of Bangladesh to endanger babies' lives by recommending 
infant formula over breastfeeding." 

[Hilary Parsons  [log in to unmask]]

Given the frustration expressed by our USA colleagues in here, over free 
cake and pens in their own hospitals, I thought it a quote you may 
appreciate having access to.

The online article is also missing the excellent photographs used in the 
actual newspaper article, although you can find the main photo - a sick 
baby being spoon fed weak solution formula - on the link to the article 
from Baby Milk Action's main page:  http://www.babymilkaction.org/ 
(scroll down). 

Morgan Gallagher

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