Koletzko, Berthold
Bührer, Christoph
Ensenauer, Regina
Jochum, Frank
Kalhoff, Hermann
Lawrenz, Burkhard
Körner, Antje
Mihatsch, Walter
Rudloff, Silvia
Zimmer, Klaus-Peter
Article History
Received: 20 February 2019
Accepted: 21 February 2019
First Online: 6 March 2019
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: The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and its employee BK were supported by financial support from the Commission of the European Communities (FP5-QLRT-2001-00389 CHOPIN, FP5-QLAM-2001-00582 PIANO, FP6-007036QLRT-2001-00389 EARNEST, FP7-289346-EarlyNutrition), the European Research Council (Grant ERC-2012 AdG-no.322605 META-GROWTH), the European Joint Programming Initiative NutriProgram ERA-HDHL, the European Erasmus + programs Early Nutrition eAcademy Southeast Asia-573651-EPP-1-2016-1-EN-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP and Capacity Building to Improve Early Nutrition and Health in South Africa-598488-EPP-1-2018-1-EN-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, and the European Interreg- Program Focus in CD-CE111. Additional funding was provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (no. 01 GI 0825 and INST 409/224-1 FUGG), the German Research Foundation (KO912/10-1), the McHealth innovation initiative of the LMU and the LMU Center for Advanced Studies. LMU and its employee BK have collaborated with pharmaceutical and food companies on scientific and educational projects, mostly as part of publicly funded research projects. None of these interactions have affected the content of this manuscript.CB’s employer received fee equivalent payments from the Nestlé Nutrition Institute for lectures. RE received grants for talks by Ferring and Milupa.FJ has received funding for lecture and training activities from Fresenius, Baxter, Human, HIPP, Nestlé. The FJ employer is involved in research/clinical trials of Fonterra and Humana.HK has received financial contributions from Abbvie for lectures.BL has received financial contributions from Abbvie, BVKJ-Service GmbH, Engelhard, GSK, Hansisches Verlagskontor, KVWL Consult, Life Sciences, Medice, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Product + Market, RG, Sanofi Pasteur, and SPMSD.AK has received financial grants from Ipsen Pharma.WM has received grants from Nestlé, Nutricia, and Nutrinia.SR does not indicate any potential conflicts of interest.The employer of PZ receives grants from the BMBF for the BMBF study CED.All authors do not declare a conflict of interest under the guidelines of the US Institute of Medicine.
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