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Judy Ritchie <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:14:15 -0800
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This explains how formula company advertising changed after the $126 million
formula company anti-trust price fixing settlement in the US Valerie just
posted about.

http://it.stlawu.edu/~advertiz/andrew/contemporary.htm



and from

http://www.zipmall.com/bab-bott.htm



"There is no one out there paying megabucks to [advertise] breast-feeding,"
says Pam Hellings, a registered nurse at Oregon health Sciences University
in Portland. "If it were a fair world, we would market both and let the
public take its pick."



My thought for the day:  Too bad babies cannot sue under the RICO act for
formula company practices in hospitals, advertising and in the mail
shipping.

Judy Ritchie










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