I had an interesting discussion with my husband during a road trip last Friday. He works for a major drug company (as a scientist not a rep!) and 2 things came up that correlate this askdrsears website issue. If you can stand one more post about it.... My dh (BTW, does that mean dear husband?;-)) is going to a conference next week put on by a robotics company whose equipment he is using in the clinical setting for experimentation. He is manning a poster presentation on the results they got in the lab using this equipment. The robotics company was going to waive his reg fee for making a presentation on this but it is against his company's rules. They'd rather pay his fee than have it written off. Why? They don't want any sembance of promoting this company's product. They don't want to be seen as endorsing it. It might impact on their reputation. Employees are also not allowed to accept free meals from vendors, unless they reciprocate. Again, for the same reason. The appearance of inpropriety is everything! I believe that is what our message is to Dr. Sears. However good his intentions (and I'm not going to argue that), the appearance of an alliance with a formula company would make his breastfeeding advice suspect. Marsha, who has been married for the last year + to a toxicologist who is getting quite an education in breastfeeding! It's fun to talk about this 'drugs in breastmilk' issue with someone who understands it well. Marsha Glass RN, BSN, IBCLC Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined. John S. C. Abbot *********************************************** 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