Breedlove Challenges Restrictions on the Production of Life-Saving Humanitarian Food Aid

LUBBOCK, Texas: January 08, 2010, (PCTV Newsdesk)

Breedlove Foods Inc., a non- profit humanitarian aid organization seeks to remove restrictions on the production and distribution of ready- to-use foods critical to addressing the needs of the hungry worldwide.

Breedlove announced that it, together with another non-profit, Mama Cares, of Carlsbad, California, have filed a declaratory judgment action against Nutriset, SAF and IRD (both French firms) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. That action seeks a court declaration that the Breedlove and Mama Cares products do not infringe any valid and enforceable claim of Nutriset's and IRD's U.S. Patent No. 6,346,284.

"We will challenge the patent held by Nutriset and IRD as invalid and unenforceable," said David Fish, CEO of Breedlove Foods. "There should be no restrictions on the development and production of life-saving food aid. Any restrictions on the production of humanitarian food aid are a direct and tragic repression of the needs of the most vulnerable women and children of this world."

According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the gravest single threat to the world's public health. About 1 BILLION people regularly SUFFER FROM HUNGER, and most are women and child. Malnutrition contributes to over half of all child deaths worldwide, and 1 child DIES EVERY 6 SECONDS from hunger related causes. There is a need to develop and provide greater resources and means to reverse this cycle of hunger -- suffering -- death.

Among the most urgent means that can be delivered is to increase the supply and availability of ready-to- eat foods for the most vulnerable in the world. Those products are now only available in limited supply.

Breedlove and Mama Cares are both dedicated to addressing the world hunger problem by providing ready-to-eat, superior nutrition, and highly palatable food aid for general population uses, for moderately malnourished children, for people living with HIV/AIDS, and for pregnant and lactating women. Breedlove and Mama Cares both have the desire, the expertise, and currently available materials to produce ready-to-eat foods that would help to alleviate the world hunger problem.

Breedlove has a 15-year history of developing and delivering humanitarian food aid. To date, Breedlove has provided more than one-billion servings of food to people all over the world, in programs ranging from emergency and disaster relief, to highly structured nutrition and health activities -- all involving those in need because of poverty, famine, and malnutrition.

"We knew that there were issues with availability of a ready to eat product and that organizations that need these high-nutrient foods reported that supply was limited and expensive," Fish said. "As a non- profit dedicated to providing nutritious food to those in need, we have the capability to produce these types of products and consider it our obligation to increase the supply and availability of these life-saving foods."

For further information visit www.breedlove.org.