Laurie Wheeler copied this info:

<< ["IBLCE CERP credits may be awarded for relevant programs sponsored
by qualified providers so long as no manufacturer or marketer of
artificial infant feeding products or any other related person or
entity exercises any control over the choice of speakers, or
exercises any control over the content of the program.  CERPs will
not be given for any presentation given by a speaker who has a
relationship with a manufacturer or marketer of artificial infant
feeding products." ] >>

I pulled out this bit
<<exercises any control over the choice of speakers, or
exercises any control over the content of the program.>>

It strikes me that all of the posts on Lactnet about this topic (every time
it comes up) suggest that control is exercised by the very nature of the
debate. This debate alone means that control has been exercised over the
speakers--there are so many of us who would decline to speak--narrowing the
field of speakers drastically. In the act of making a statement of disas
sociation, your lecture has been influenced. If you attend a conference,
perhaps unaware of the sponsorship issue initially, then your suspicions
about the speaker and content may always be in question. As I see it, if a
speaker has to search her ethics in this way, control has been exerted.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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