“I first became aware of FAS in 1973, when I was a school nurse in an elementary school in Washington D.C. I had a 5 or 6-year-old child who did not seem to be doing well in school, did not grow, and had very unusual facial characteristics. The school counselor and I were very concerned. It was at that time that I happened to go to a conference at Howard University, where I learned about fetal alcohol syndrome, and I have to say that it was an eye-opener that changed my life.”
Joyce Day
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Xavier Bertrand: a logo warning pregnant women on alcohol bottles at the beginning of 2006 |
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Translated from French
AP | 10.11.05 | 14:20
PARIS (AP) -- the Minister for Health Xavier Bertrand announced
Thursday that the logo warning the pregnant women of the dangers of
alcohol for the foetus "will appear on the bottles at the beginning of
2006". "In the days which come, I will take a decree which makes compulsory a pictogram on the alcohol
bottles, to warn pregnant women on the dangers of these products." According to the National Institute of Health and medical research
(Inserm), of the 750.000 annual births, 700 to 2.000 children can be concerned with the syndrome of foetal
alcoholization (SAF).
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