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Breastfeeding
What Price a Free Dinner?
Lynda Williams reports on a pro-formula presentation that made even the most hardened cynics among us turn ashen-faced. Result of Complaint to Ministry of Health Compliance Panel From the Maternity Services Consumer Council Newsletter June 2010 The outcome of a complaint laid regarding the free dinners organised for GPs, Plunket and midwives by the drug company Bayer on 23 and 25 June 2008 and the pre-dinner presentations given by Auckland paediatrician Peter Nobbs on “Feeding options for women not fully breastfeeding” which was followed by a presentation by a Bayer employee promoting a range of specialised infant formulas manufactured by Bayer.
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