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Nestle: The Infant Formula Controversy
Companies must have a business policy that includes a political, environmental, cultural impact in all their daily activities. In this case, Nestle which is the world’s largest leading nutrition , health and wellness company that has a huge responsibilities providing the costumers the most nutritious products and educational booklets on infant feeding and hygiene. Companies have to show a big commitment following their business policy and they can imp lent it in many ways and have to be refelect3ed in every practice and movement that they made. For example in the nestle case one of the principal issues was the education, Nestle have to make sure to implement an educational and training operations for the mothers making sure that they have the knowledge in order to use their products.
The principal issue for me in this case was the educations and the manage of information, every country has different educational and cultural conditions and therefore Nestle made a mistake in advertising their product in the same way in developed and developing countries. Nestle could made educational practices before expose their product specially in developing countries in which the education for the mothers is not good enough and the hygiene conditions are not the same. They should predicted that and with a professional health support educated the mothers first and then advertise the product making sure that they are going to have the knowledge and make the correct use of their product and that way they could help to educated them not only with breast feeding they can traded another issues for example the VIH and the hygiene illness and how to prevent them.

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