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<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">arun</b> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:arun.ibfan@gmail.com">arun.ibfan@gmail.com</a></span><br><br><br><br>Nestle Piggy Backs its own Institute to Sponsor Doctors Conferences and BREAKING THE INDIAN LAW: Governments need to Act!<br>
<br>Hiding behind their own, Nestle Nutrition Institute, Nestle, the manufacturer of the Infant Milk Substitutes and Infant Foods, hosts a conference for the doctors in Chennai tomorrow the 30th, and hosted one in Kolkutta yesterday the 28th April. This action breaks the Indian law, the Infant Milk Substitutes Feeding Bottles, and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act 1992, and the Amended Act 2003. <a href="http://www.bpni.org/docments/IMS-act.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.bpni.org/docments/IMS-act.pdf</a><br>
<br>The Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI), the agency that has been notified under section 21(1(c) of the IMS Act, received information just this morning about tomorrow’s event in Chennai the 30th April, and wrote to the Principal Secretary Health, Tamil Nadu as well as Secretary Health Government of India to take action. In fact, the BPNI has requested the health secretary of Tamil Nadu, not to inaugurate the said conference and avoid giving legitimacy to the organizers.<br>
<br>The scientific conference “ Emerging Trends in Pediatric Nutrition” to be held at Hotel Park in Chennai, hosted by the Nestle Nutrition Institute, a subsidiary of Nestle, the manufacturer of infant milk substitutes and infant foods.<br>
<br>It is ironical that on one hand the government authorities supposed to regulate and check malpractices in infant feeding show a thunderous enthusiasm but fail to even inform its functionaries about their roles and conduct while dealing with this sensitive matter. The net result of all this translates into inadvertent endorsement of such unnecessary and even harmful products when these guardians of public health inaugurate, attend, chair and benefit from the carefully crafted media coverage.<br>
<br>BPNI is deeply concerned about the unethical practices of baby food and formula companies or their allies, to work in with a handful of allured individuals. Hiding behind company mooted institutions is now become a fashion among all such corporate houses making baby foods. BPNI believe that infant formulas and baby foods are only recipes for disaster for infants rather than anything else; there is no reason that corporate sector should be interfering with infant nutrition.<br>
<br>Contacts:<br>Dr JP Dadhich<br><a href="mailto:jpdadhich@gmail.com" target="_blank">jpdadhich@gmail.com</a><br></div>