An invitation to evaluate the products with a short chain
The Association: "It is not 'scientifically proven higher quality' food industry specific for children and for the nutrition of children compared to natural products"

The higher quality 'and safety of the baby food industry compared to natural products are not scientifically proven. It supports the Cultural Association of Pediatricians (ACP), which dissociates from the "Recommendations on the benefits of child-specific food industry for nutrition of children, recently distributed a brochure for families from the Italian Federation of Pediatricians (FIMP)" ACP said in a statement.

In the brochure it says that: "The fresh fruit contains 50% of the levels of pesticides unsuitable child" and that "35% of grain in Italy contains residues of pesticides are too high for infant feeding." For the data reported by ACP FIMP in a statement in support of the validity 'of these statements are largely questionable.

Pediatricians PCA: 1) want to reassure and encourage all those parents who, around the sixth month of life, use supplementary feeding at the request of the child, using the same food they take, 2) reaffirm the importance of a 'adequate information to parents to a healthy diet for the whole family and are committed to create an ad hoc media campaigns, 3) encourage a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and plants for the whole family, and when using' as possible to the products short chain and in this case often organic (even resorting to joint participation in buying groups, the so-called Gas).

And again: 4) believe that the intake of processed foods penalizes the food culture of its diverse populations and different families through delegation to 'third most' experts' even the simple act of feeding her child, 5) undertake to continue to fight to raise awareness of food safety agencies to improve more and more 'laws and regulations, along with the public associations for the protection of consumers;

6) believe that the actions of advocacy to put safe food on the table within the most 'comprehensive chapter of the environment, public health priority. Interventions must be 'political' and must fall on the entire population, including of course the bands more 'vulnerable (including fetuses and embryos); 7) emphasize that the promotion of food industry penalizes families for children less poor, and worsens the quality 'of the environment through the multiplication of packaging waste and their disposal and transportation through the territories.

Finally, the ACP believes that, under the general principle of transparency, "documents of this kind involve - as it happens around the world - the need 'to declare the source of funding at the base of the information campaign".