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>This issue of formula sponsorship may seem like a simple one but I recieved
the AWHONN conference flyer in the mail a couple of weeks ago and I believe
Mead is a sponsor, Ross is doing a lunch and Wyeth is there too. Medela and
La Leche are listed as exhibitors. Where is the line drawn?<
Our organisation has a detailed Guidance document for our workers. We
consider things like speaking at a conference with sponsorship separately
from having a stall at a conference where companies also have stalls, and
separately from a conference sponsored by a company. Being one of a group
of exhibitors (esp if you paid for the stall) is different from speaking --
a slightly different set of considerations.
Having helped draw up these guidelines, I agree that the issues are not
simple, but there can be simple principles. IN our case -- and I mention
these just as an example, they may not be what you would wish for
yourself -- it is that we wish to be an independent source of information,
and that it is important not only to be independent, but to be seen to be
independent.
Doesn't ILCA have a detailed set of guidelines? Or LLL USA? If not, what
guidance is there and what latitude is given within it? I am curious,
because after the experience of 1997 here in the UK, I would never feel safe
again in an organisation without clear set of principles that all adhere to.
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