----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Gromada" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] lactation consultant survey

**Hi Karen,

> Re: eRewards survey -- Well, it's the old LC or LLLL (or reasonable
> facsimile) catch-22... Someone actually asks for the input of those who 
> know
> more breastfeeding aids/devices (finally) via a typical marketing research
> format and we're all damned it we do and damned if we don't.

**That is why it would be best if an independent organisation with no 
commercial interest in one single product woudl do the survey. Their name 
could then be known to those replying and the results ought to be published 
in an impeccable manner. We have the Consumentengids in the Netherlands, a 
consumer magazine that does all kinds of testing for many, many products. 
They have certain criteria for the product group and all sorts and brands 
are tested. Those are given a grade, so that consumers have an independent, 
fairly objective expert meaning on product X or Y or Z. Brands are happy 
with a good grading, because it wasn't them who said it, but the independent 
organisation. I would prefer something like that: an organisation testing 
partly medical consumergoods independently. If they have no funding, I do at 
least know that I'm not paying the manufacturer by answering the questions 
for free. If they do have money to share, I would at least know that it 
comes from an organisation that stands nothing to gain from my expert 
opinion. Wouldn't that be much better...?

Warmly,

Marianne Vanderveen IBCLC, Netherlands 

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