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Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules 2004<br />
� Nutricia distributes unsolicited supplies of Nutrilon<br />
to health facilities in the Dominican Republic which<br />
are subsequently distributed to mothers. Nutricia presents<br />
gifts of calendars, and blocks of notepads to<br />
health workers, all of which contains either the<br />
Bebelac 1 or Nutrilon brand names and the company<br />
name and logo.<br />
� In Argentina, Nutricia Bago provides unsolicited supplies<br />
of Kas 1000, L-K Infantil and Nutrilon Soya<br />
to health facilities. Health workers pass them on the<br />
mothers as free samples.<br />
� A maternity<br />
clinic in<br />
Curaçao<br />
distributes<br />
� Nutricia delivers Christmas hampers as<br />
gifts to a clinic in Curaçao. The company<br />
also supplies the clinic and a hospital<br />
in Curaçao with free formula.<br />
In Indonesia:<br />
�<br />
� A leaflet – “Diarrhoea in infants” –<br />
found at a clinic in Curaçao (<strong>Caribbean</strong>)<br />
claims that “Nutricia Infant<br />
Formulae are complete: they closely<br />
resemble breastmilk, not only composition,<br />
but also in absorption<br />
characteristics.”�<br />
Crème Nutricia<br />
brochures which promote rice porridge<br />
from 4 months. The same facility gives<br />
out Nutricia bookmarks with colourful<br />
pack shots of 7 different brands of<br />
Nutricia formulas. �<br />
� Gift for mothers in Curaçao:<br />
baby passports have the<br />
Nutricia company logo and the<br />
slogan “Nutricia Baby Feed-<br />
�<br />
ing Specialists”. The statement<br />
on the importance of<br />
breastfeeding is included in a<br />
separate sheet which will<br />
easily fall out of the booklet.<br />
� Company representatives visit mothers at health facilities<br />
once or twice a month to promote Nutricia<br />
products such as Bebelac.<br />
<strong>IBFAN</strong> -- International Baby Food Action Network<br />
NUTRICIA<br />
� Nutricia distributes many gifts to health workers such<br />
as calendars, wall clocks, posters, pens, pencil cases,<br />
notebooks and growth charts bearing brand names<br />
such as Bebelac 1 together with the company logo.<br />
Most of these items are put up on walls or desks where<br />
there are seen by the public.<br />
� Nutricia donates unsolicited supplies of Bebelac,<br />
Bebelac 1, Crème Nutricia, Nutrilon and Nutrilon<br />
Premium 1 to health facilities. In some cases, supplies<br />
are provided at special discounts or invoices are<br />
issued but are not followed up with payment collections.<br />
Elsewhere, Nutricia obligingly supply health<br />
facilities with Bebelac<br />
and Nutrilon upon receiving<br />
requests from<br />
the facilities.<br />
� Nutrilon 1 free supplies<br />
to this maternity<br />
clinic are passed on to<br />
mothers after delivery.<br />
� In one clinic, mothers are given free samples of<br />
Bebelac 1 on discharge. Company representatives<br />
later telephone mothers to ask whether they are still<br />
using Bebelac.<br />
� Baby cot tags and<br />
patient number cards<br />
are supplied by<br />
Nutricia to health<br />
facilities and bear<br />
either the Bebelac or<br />
the Nutrilon brand<br />
name.<br />
Baby mattresses stamped with the<br />
Nutricia name are also given.<br />
�<br />
A Bebelac health<br />
record card<br />
Health facilities display<br />
clocks, calendars,<br />
posters and other<br />
information advertising<br />
Nutricia products in<br />
waiting rooms and on<br />
health workers’ desks.<br />
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