Well maybe it's more useful to draw the link between bottle manufacturers
and breast pumps.
You know when Pigeon bought Lansinoh I wondered why....at least part of the
reason has recently been revealed....Lansinoh is now selling a breast pump,
and wouldn't you know it, it looks identical to the Pigeon pump. I guess
that Pigeon understood that their marketing opportunities were limited by
their history of WHO code breaching and that people perhaps did not trust a
breast pump from a company whose bread and butter is bottles.

Karleen Gribble
Australia



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Subject: Breast pumps and formula interests


> The major formula manufacturers in the US are Mead Johnson (Bristol Meyers
Squibb), Ross Products (Abbott Labs), Nestle, and PBM Nutritionals. PBM
Nutritionals bought the old Wyeth manufacturing facility. Wyeth no longer
makes or distributes?formula in the US. The only formula company that made
or distributed breast pumps was Ross Products who over the years has
distributed hand pumps from other pump makers such as White River. Gerber
makes a pump and distributes formula in countries other than the US. Most of
the pump makers are not?owned?by formula companies. While some pumps on the
market are certainly more like toys than medical devices, formula companies
have little to do with them.
>
> Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
> Weston, MA
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