Mama Cares Archives

October 22, 2010 | Mama Cares

Mama Cares Foundation to Host First Annual Restore Life Benefit Dinner and Auction as Part of Its Campaign to Feed Malnourished Children

Mama Cares Foundation, a non-profit foundation focused on eliminating severe acute malnutrition, announced today that it is hosting its First Annual Restore Life Benefit Dinner and Auction on Saturday November 13, 2010 at the Sheraton Carlsbad Resort and Spa... more

 

June 01, 2010 | Vita Europe

Can You Patent Life-Saving Nutrition? ...

Nutriset controls the U.S. patent 6346284 and aside from its packaging licenses given to businesses in certain countries the product can’t be replicated, or even imitated, even by manufacturers who suggest they could produce the same substance at lower cost...more

 

May 19, 2010 | Vita Europe

Nutriset’s patent on Plumpynut threatens to prevent Mama Cares Foundation & Breedlove Foods to enter the RUTF...

Plumpynut threatens to prevent Mama Cares Foundation & Breedlove Foods to enter the RUTF – ready-to-use therapeutic food – market with two new products which are very similar ....more

 

May 19, 2010 | Plumpy'Nut goes to court

Nutriset has been accused of stopping other companies from saving children's lives.

The humanitarian world is beside itself because of a revolutionary peanut-based ...more

 

May 14, 2010 | Mama Cares V. Nutriset: Sad Case of No Controversy?

Shahnam Sharareh and Peter Butch discuss the California-based Mama Cares Foundation and how it filed a declaratory judgment action against Nutriset...

The article also discusses the controversies surrounding the case....more

 

May 4, 2010 | Fox Rothschild

Shahnam Sharareh and Peter Butch discuss the California-based Mama Cares Foundation...

Shahnam Sharareh and Peter Butch discuss the California-based Mama Cares Foundation and how it filed a declaratory judgment action against Nutriset ....more

 

April 22, 2010 | The Next500

The Next 500: Mellace Family Brands - Interview of Mike Mellace

May 27, 2010 — Beck Bamberger takes you into a world a chocolate, nuts, and snack at the Mellace Family Brand headquarters ...more

 

April 22, 2010 | MamaCares.org

Mama Cares Foundation Hosts Event to Rally Support for its Fight Against World Hunger

On April 22, 2010 an event was held that focused on raising awareness and support to fight against child malnutrition. Old and new friends joined us to hear an update about...Click link below to display Press Release..>RE:VIVE May Newsletter

 

April 19, 2010 | Can You Patent Life-Saving Nutrition?

Nutriset controls the U.S. patent 6346284 and aside from its packaging licenses given to businesses in certain countries...

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April 11, 2010 | The Herald

Going nuts: legal row erupts over French wonder-food used to nourish children

A French-made humanitarian wonder-food is the object of a bitter transatlantic legal dispute, after two American charities... ...more

 

April 08, 2010 | BBC News / Europe

Legal fight over hunger wonder-product:

French company, Nutriset, challenges Mama Cares Foundation over patent rights to produce an RUTF; read about the conundrum of whether humanitarian food product should be patented while demand is far from being met...more

 

January 16, 2010 | The San Diego Union-Tribune

Child malnutrition center of legal battle

Mike Mellace only has to look at his 4-year-old son, brought home from an Ethiopian orphanage a year ago, to know what it means to save a child from malnutrition...more

 

January 14, 2010 | The Daily Transcript

Mama Cares teams with Breedlove Foods

Mama Cares Foundation, a nonprofit focused on eliminating severe acute malnutrition, has announced that it has joined forces with Breedlove Foods Inc., a humanitarian aid nonprofit...more

 

January 13, 2010 | Associated Press

US nonprofits sue over patent to feed hungry

A pair of American nonprofits want to ramp up production in the next year of a high-protein peanut butter-like paste that could feed some of the more than 1 billion people around the world who don't have enough to eat...more

 

January 13, 2010 | The AM Law Daily

Fulbright Goes Pro Bono in IP Case Over Food for the Hungry

Fulbright & Jaworski has agreed to represent two U.S.-based nonprofits who claim a French company is blocking rivals from producing a nut-based food product that is well-suited for feeding malnourished children...more

 

January 12, 2010 | IRIN News

GLOBAL: Plumpy'nut patent under pressure

Two US-based companies have teamed up to challenge the patents for Plumpy'nut, a widely distributed ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) registered in the US...more

 

January 8, 2010 | Pakistan Christian TV

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

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...more

 

December 5, 2009 | NBC News San Diego

Money Matters - Digging Deep to Help Friends and Neighbors

Local snack food company making year-round effort to give back to people in need...more

 

November 23, 2009 | PR.com

Mellace Family Brands Fights Hunger Through Mama Cares

Mellace Family Brands, a snack food innovator known for a diverse product line that includes tree nuts, peanuts, snack mixes, and enrobed chocolate items, today announced that The Mama Cares Foundation, a non-profit organization set up by Mellace Family Brands...more