Fw: E4GR [Fwd: A question]

[Margaret McCann]

Greetings from Haiti, where I am working at the Hopital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) for 6 months. See below for a response from the director here about peanut-butter based supplementary food. Here it's called "Medika Mamba," which is Creole for peanut-butter medicine.

 

Meg McCann

St. Philip's, Durham, NC

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Ian Rawson

To: Margaret McCann ; Ian Rawson ; Adeline Azrack

Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:48 AM

Subject: Re: E4GR [Fwd: A question]

Meg, it is possible to manufacture a peanut-based, enriched food product without approval from Nutriset, and several organizations in Haiti do so.
However, if you wish to get international approval, you must seek approval from Nutriset, which has specific standards.
We have chosen to obtain our supply from Medicine and Food for Kids in Cap Haitien, whose factory we visited several weeks ago. They were preparing for a UNICEF audit of quality, which will be one more measure of good production techniques.
The major hazard in producing any peanut-based nutrient is aflotoxin. MFK and other approved sites test the raw peanut batches for aflotoxin, and also test each production line for the same thing.
We feel that the audit and approval process is a good thing - sort of like FDA approval.
People can write what they want, but HAS is comfortable with the system as it exists.
We look forward to producing peanuts on our farm in the near future, and testing the harvest and then selling the crop to MFK for credit against future purchases of Medika Mamba.
We have looked into creating our own production facility, and have decided against doing so.
Adeline, please add relevant insights...
Ian

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret McCann [mailto:margare...@att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 04:47 PM
To: 'Ian Rawson', 'Adeline Azrack'
Subject: Fw: E4GR [Fwd: A question]

Adeline and Ian --   Do either of you know anything about this?   Meg     ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Kinman To: e4...@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:48 PM Subject: E4GR [Fwd: A question] Hi everyone, time to plumb the collective wisdom of this group. Got this inquiry from a friend ... any thoughts? Christ's peace, Mike+ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: A question Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:20:09 -0600 From: Helen "><candl...@earthlink.net> To: Mike Kinman "><mki...@gmail.com> Plumpy-Nut fits exactly in something I am writing. But as I check it out on the Internet I see that it is patented by Nutriset and that company chooses which countries it will license to produce it.   Sounds -- you should pardon the expression -- nuts!   Before I write about it, I wonder what your take on it is. Could little children in our country collect pennies and send them to the address on your website with the expectation of tiny, starving children being fed this amazing compound?   Thanks for your help,   Helen Barron CANDLE PRESS   www.candlepress.com     -- The Rev. Mike Kinman Executive Director, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation MKi...@gmail.com + 314.348.6453 http://www.e4gr.org + http://www.e4gr.blogspot.com