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In Brief: Don't send milk to Gaza
– nutritionists
Source: IRIN
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NAIROBI, 8 January 2009 (IRIN) - If you are concerned for the health and well-being of
children in Gaza, "Do not send donations of infant formula, bottles or milk products to Gaza", say top emergency nutritionists. A leading group of nutrition experts, including the World Health
Organization, UN Children's Fund and NGOs, in a media brief published in English, Arabic and Spanish, state that the "indiscriminate use of infant formula in an emergency is extremely dangerous to
babies, causing illness and death". The Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies group's paper, highlighted this week on the leading Emergency Nutrition website, asks journalists not to
publicise aid agency appeals for milk and formula, plainly stating: "There is no need for donations of infant formula, powdered milk or baby bottles to be sent to the site of an emergency." Read
more: Emergency Nutrition bp/mw© IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.IRINnews.org
