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“The most important thing that I want you to understand about our journey with FASD is that even though my son David has an IQ of 111 and attends public school in a regular classroom setting even though he looks like all of the other children and scores high on the state's standard of learning tests, the disabling effects of FASD are something we can never forget. He has no ability to regulate his behavior or activity level.”
Ida Farr

Xavier Bertrand: a logo warning pregnant women on alcohol bottles at the beginning of 2006

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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