Issue
30: December 2001 - Quiz Answers (in red)
Q1 All of the
following except one may be found in artificial baby milk.
Which is not?
a) tuna
fish eye sockets
b) locust bean gum
C)
ALPHALACTALBUMIN
d) genetically modified marine algae
Q2 Which artificial baby milk company is currently paying
for research in the USA using trans-genic cows to produce
milk with ‘human’ factors?
a) Nutricia
B) SMA / WYETH
c) Hipp
d) Heinz Farleys
Q3 Under
which paragraph of the UK Law on marketing baby milks
is it illegal to put a picture of an infant on a tin?
A)
13(2)
b) 15
c) 21(2)
d) 8(3)
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Q4 A yellow
chocolate duck constitutes “factual and scientific
information” according to whom?
a) The
World Health Organisation
B) SMA
c) Baby Milk Action
d) Trading Standards
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Q5 SMA withdrew
some batches of products earlier in the year due to incidences
of botulism. Which company responded immediately by writing
to health visitors telling them that its milks were made to
the “highest possible level of safety”?
A)
HEINZ/FARLEYS
b) Hipp
c) Cow and Gate
d) Wyeth/SMA
Q6 Mead Johnson
claims that its milk Nutramigen can reduce crying time in
colicy babies by 8 times. How many babies were in the study
which apparently showed this?
A) 24
b) 240
c) 2400
d) 0
Q7 Which baby
bottle manufacturer claims its bottle “reduces risk
of middle ear infection, maintains vitamin C delivery”
and “eliminates well known causes of colic”?
a) Maws
B) LINDAM (DR BROWN)
c) Avent
d) Heinz / Farleys
Q8 The toy
sponge bricks, pictured below (given out by SMA at the
Health Visitors’ Conference), are a violation of
which articles of the International Code?
a)
4 & 5
B) 6 & 7
c) 7 & 8
d) 4 & 7
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Q9 How much does
it cost (milk and equipment only) to artificially feed a baby
(in the UK) for one year from birth?
a) £4.40
b) £44
C) £440
d) nothing if you use tokens
Q10 The Sales
Director of which company, when talking about how to maximise
sales, said: “We suggest milk is merchandised on the
left hand side of the fixture, followed closely by an early
weaning block - jars and packet foods from 4 months - to stop
mums drifting into home-made foods”? (Check Out,
1/9/97)
a) Heinz
Farleys
b) Hipp
c) Boots
D) COW&GATE/MILUPA
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