Does Nestlé give expensive gifts to health workers?
No. According to our Instructions, financial or material inducement to promote infant formula is not allowed. Inexpensive items of professional utility, like measuring tapes, weighing-scales, thermometers or tongue depressors, or culturally appropriate small items are allowed. The Nestlé Instructions, issued in 1982, including a “List of materials of professional utility which may be distributed to individual health workers” (Annex 4), were reviewed and refined in 1984 in consultation with WHO, UNICEF and the International Nestlé Boycott Committee.
