Plumpy'nut

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Plumpy'Nut is a peanut-based pasta in plastic wrap for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition produced by Nutriset, a French company. Removing the need for hospitalization, the 92-gram package (3Ã, Â ° oz) of this paste can be given at home and allowing a larger amount to be treated.

Plumpy'Nut can be referred to in the scientific literature as Ready-Ready Food Therapy (RUTF) with other RUTFs such as BP100.

Nutriset has been criticized by MÃÆ' Â © decins Sans FrontiÃÆ'¨res for upholding his Plumpy'nut patent.

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Use

Plumpy'Nut is used as a treatment for emergency malnutrition cases. It supports the rapid weight gain that comes from a wide nutritional intake that can relieve a starving child from an impending disease or death. This product is easy for children to eat because it is easily shared from a tear resistant package. Pasta such as fortified peanut butter contains fat, dietary fiber, carbohydrates, proteins (as essential macronutrients), vitamins and minerals (as essential micronutrients). Peanut butter itself is a rich source of vitamin E (45% of Daily Value, DV, in the amount of 100 grams) and vitamin B (especially niacin at 67% DV).

Plumpy'Nut has a shelf life of two years and does not require water, preparation, or cooling. Its ease of use has made malnutrition treatment in a hunger situation more efficient than it was in the past. Severe acute malnutrition has traditionally been treated with therapeutic milk and required hospitalization. Unlike milk, Plumpy'Nut can be given at home and without medical supervision. It also provides essential calories and nutrients that restore and maintain weight and health in children with malnutrition is more effective than F100.

The United Nations has recognized this utility, stating in 2007 that "new evidence suggests... that large numbers of children with acute malnutrition can be treated in their communities without being treated in a health facility or therapeutic food center," as it was carried out in the year 2007 by UNICEF and the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission in Niger to deal with the emergency of malnutrition. Plumpy'nut in accordance with the United Nations definition of Ready-Treatment Food (RUTF).

Plumpy'nut is not intended for routine nutrition, or for malnutrition in non-starvation situations. Peanut allergies have not been found to be a problem in use due to lack of allergic reactions in target populations.

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Composition

The ingredients in Plumpy'Nut include "peanut based pasta, with sugar, vegetable oil and skimmed milk powder, fortified with vitamins and minerals". Plumpy'Nut is said to be "very good".

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Production

While the majority of Plumpy'Nut is made in France in 2010, this therapeutic food is easily produced and can be made locally in the bean-growing area by mixing the bean paste with other ingredients supplied by Nutriset.

A number of partner companies and one non-profit organization in the state of Rhode Island in the US made Plumpy'Nut; six factories are in African countries (Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Sudan, Madagascar, Kenya), one in Haiti and another in India.

Plumpy'Nut is distributed from manufacturer to geographic area of ​​need through a complicated supply chain. Future information flows, such as projected needs, ordering processes, and payment information, and backward information flows, including stock monitoring, quality assurance, and performance data occur through the exchange of information susceptible to errors or delays associated with supply chain fragmentation. Factors affecting potential loss of efficiency in the supply chain are the flow of information on orders, the base needs, forecasts, upstream flows from field officers and state offices to those controlling regional distribution and manufacturing by Nutriset, downstream information at delivery times and status orders.

A complete two-month regimen for a kid worth US $ 60 c. 2010.

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History

Inspired by the popular Nutella spread, Plumpy'Nut was discovered in 1996 by AndrÃÆ'Â © Briend, the French child nutritionist, and Michel Lescanne, a food processing engineer. Nutella is a food consisting of sugar, modified palm oil, hazelnuts, chocolate, skimmed milk powder, whey powder, lecithin, and vanillin. Instead, Plumpy'Nut is a combination of peanut paste, vegetable oil and powdered milk, excluding chocolate, but containing sugar, vitamin and mineral foods.

Skippy may have developed similar products in the early 1960s, according to former employees, though never released.

Patent issues

Nutriset holds patents in many countries (including US patent 6346284 Ã, , published in 2002) for the production of nutty-based nutritional foods as pasta, which they have defended to prevent License in the United States from producing similar products. In places where Nutriset has no patents, similar pasta producers have been discontinued from exporting their products to places where Plumpy'Nut is patented. In at least 27 African countries, nonprofit organizations (including NGOs) can make pastes and do not pay license fees.

In 2010, two US non-profit organizations failed to sue the French company in an effort to legally produce Plumpy'Nut in the US without paying any royalty fees. Mike Mellace, president of one of the organizations claimed that "some children are dying because Nutriset prevents other companies from producing foods that can save their lives." The invalidation of Nutriset patents may have a positive impact on populations affected by hunger, and studies by humanitarian organizations support the idea that having a single dominant supplier in Nutriset is undesirable. Critics of Nutriset argue the US patent is "clear in light of the previous recipe" and "that the patent essentially gives monopoly power to Nutriset and thus violates the Sherman Act". By definition, the patent provides a temporary monopoly, and Nutriset wins the case. Some have suggested similarities between the pharmaceutical company's mandatory license agreement, in place under the WTO TRIP Agreement, and Plumpy'Nut.

After the threat of legal action against a Norwegian company that exports similar products to Kenya, Nutriset was criticized by MÃÆ' Â © decins Sans FrontiÃÆ'¨res, who stated in an open letter that "Nutriset has been asked repeatedly by us and others for simplicity. reasonable license... Instead it appears [Nutriset] decided to adopt an aggressive protection policy against its patent that could be considered an abuse in relation to humanitarian products. "A UNICEF study, commissioned at Duke University and the University of North Carolina , recommends a diversified RUTF product supplier base to better serve global needs. In response to these criticisms, Nutriset has allowed companies and NGOs in some African countries to make pasta and not pay licensing fees.

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See also

• The castle spreads
• Relief relief
• Nutribun
• ready-to-use therapeutic (RUTF)
• List of peanut dishes

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References

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External links

• Nutriset.fr Producer site
• John. Vidal. Food, hunger & amp; climate change: How we feed the world at 85p

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