Funding of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS
"Friends of Children Fund" Annual Report, July 1, 1996 - June 30, 1997,
indicates $2.085 million in funding from corporations. Donors include
Procter & Gamble, Gerber, Infant Formula Council, McNeil Consumer Products
Company, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Johnson & Johnson Consumer
Products, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth-Lederle Vaccine & Pediatrics, Mead
Johnson Nutritionals, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Schering Corp.,
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Food Marketing Institute, Sugar Association,
International Food Information Council, Merck Vaccine Division, and others.

Formula manufacturers "donate $1 million annually to the American Academy
of Pediatrics in the form of a renewable grant that has already netted the
AAP $8 million. The formula industry also contributed at least $3 million
toward the building costs of the AAP headquarters." (Mothering magazine,
July-August, p.60; refers to a book Milk, Money and Madness by Naomi
Baumslag and Dia L. Michels (Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 1995, p.
172))

According to a New York Times article, the Ross Products Unit of Abbott
Laboratories, the maker of Similac infant formula, purchased 300,000 copies
of the AAP's "New Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding" with Ross' logo and name
on them. In addition, "Ross, McNeil and Johnson & Johnson were the top
three corporate supporters of the academy's $65 million operating
budget...each giving $500,000 or more." (New York Times, 9/18/02, C1)