From Senator Merkley’s Office and Rep. Maloney’s Office: Congressional Letters to IRS
Please see the attached letters that our Congressional partners have sent to the IRS. USBC is talking with several partners now about additional action on this issue.
2010-11-23-House-letter-to-IRS
2010-11-23-Senate-letter-to-IRS
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From AAP: New Clinical Report on Probiotics and Prebiotics
Please find the AAP’s new technical report on probiotics and prebiotics online at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/peds.2010-2548v1.
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From Robin Stanton, USBC Chair: USBC’s comments submitted to FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee on Donor Milk
USBC’s comments are available at:
http://www.usbreastfeeding.org/NewsInformation/LettersPublicComments/tabid/114/Default.aspx
FDA is opening a docket to allow for additional public comments to be submitted through January 6, 2011. http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#docketDetail?R=FDA-2010-N-0553
From National Bureau of Economic Research: “The Benefits of Breastfeeding Across the Early Years of Childhood”
Please see attached—a new report from the NBER.
From ASTPHND: ACA resource page
ASTPHND has put together a resource page on their website, compiling information from various sources about the ACA from a public health perspective.
From RWJF: “A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health”
A resource with helpful information about messaging from RWJF:
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=66428
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