I just read the article in Pediatrics online edition (http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/111/1/e39) and would like to let you know that one of the authors works for Peder Møller, who makes cod liver oil. At the end of the article, under acknowledgments, it says that the grant support for the study came from, inter alia, the Peder Møller division of Orkla AS, a large international company based in Norway, with a big share of the grocery market in Norway and Sweden and looking to expand. You can learn more about Orkla at www.orkla.com, I just did! They have a policy on genetically modified foods which shows they know GM is not a big sales booster here, at least. Another funding source is the Freia chocolate factories' medical fund. Freia was bought up by Kraft a few years ago and unless Kraft has been bought up by Nestle when I wasn't looking, it is not Nestle. Freia Chocolate was renowned for having one of the first industrial hygiene programs anywhere; it was a model company for taking care of its employees, and the employee cafeteria was decorated with a wall mural painted there, on commission, by Edvard Munch. Doesn't prove anything about how BF friendly they are, but I am pleased to be able to buy powder for making chocolate milk that doesn't come from Nestle. BTW, I wrote to the contact author, Ingrid Helland, with a couple of questions about the article. For example, the percentage of women who smoked was almost twice as high in the control group as in the cod liver oil group and they don't mention this in their discussion. It may be possible in such a small study that the differences they observed were partly due to the effects of smoking. Cheers Rachel Myr Kristiansand, Norway *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html