PEDIATRICS Vol. 60 No. 4 October 1977, pp. 560
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Challenges "Fact" Cited in Committee Report

EUGENE AINBENDER, M.D.
EDWIN G. BROWN, M.D.
AVRON Y. SWEET, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, I East 100th Street New York, New York 10029

TO THE EDITOR:

The report of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition that appeared in the February 1976 issue (Pediatrics 57:278, 1976) contains a statement that is not factual and may be misleading. The Committee states, "There is some clinical evidence suggesting that [the immune globulins of colostrum and early breast milk] provide protection from necrotizing enterocolitis." They base that statement on a publication of Santulli et al.1 who presented no clinical findings