By Armond S. Goldman (auth.), Armond S. Goldman, Stephanie A. Atkinson, Lars Å. Hanson (eds.)
Four years in the past the nationwide Institutes of kid future health and Human improvement (NICHD) introduced jointly a bunch of scientists to Belmont, Maryland to envision the prestige of human milk banking. in the course of these deliberations, the belief was once generated to prepare a chain of analysis meetings pertaining to human lactation and the composition and organic results of human milk. the 1st one, geared up by means of Robert G. Jensen from the collage of Connecticut and Margaret C. Neville from the college of Colorado, handled methodologic concerns. an extra assembly to discover the consequences of maternal and environmental elements upon human lactation and the composition of human milk used to be equipped by way of Margit Hamosh from Georgetown collage and me, and was once held in January, 1986 in Oaxaca, Mexico. these conferences supplied the basis for the layout of the current convention, 'The results of Human Milk Upon the Recipient Infant'. as well as a provide from the NICHD, the convention used to be generously supported through Milupa AG from the Federal Republic of Germany; Wyeth constrained and Mead Johnson of Canada; and Ross Laboratories, Heinz united states, the Mead Johnson dietary crew, Wyeth foreign restricted, Gerber items corporation, the los angeles Leche League overseas, Glaxo included and Sandoz Pharmaceutical company from the United States.