Michel Lescanne

Michel Lescanne
Occupation Engineer, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Known for Co-invention of Plumpy'nut and founding Nutriset

Michel Lescanne is a French food processing engineer jointly responsible for the invention of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) Plumpy'nut in 1996, and presently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the French pharmaceutical manufacturer Nutriset.[1][2]

Notes

  1. Briend, André; Lescanne, Michel (14 July 2000). "Food or nutritional supplement, preparation method and uses". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  2. Schofield, Hugh (8 April 2010). "Legal fight over Plumpy'nut, the hunger wonder-product". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  3. Ducable, Guillaume (6 November 2009). "Nutriset. Entreprise responsable". Le Journal des entreprises (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  4. von Schoen-Angerer, Tido (13 November 2009). "MSF: Nutriset patent impeding access to treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition". Médecins Sans Frontières. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  5. Enserink, Martin (3 October 2008). "Patents: A Recipe for Problems?". Science. 322: 38. PMID 18832624. doi:10.1126/science.322.5898.38. 
  6. Enserink, Martin (3 October 2008). "The Peanut Butter Debate". Science. 322: 36–38. PMID 18832623. doi:10.1126/science.322.5898.36. 
  7. "Ma pâte à base d’arachide évite l’hospitalisation aux enfants" (PDF). Le Parisien (in French). 11 June 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  8. "Nutriset: une belle histoire" (in French). Le monde comme il va. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  9. "FOOD: Plumpy'nut patent under pressure". Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). United Nations. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  10. Lescanne, Michel (March 2005). "Letter on commercial production of RUTF" (24). Field Exchange: 17. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  11. Fernandez, Alejandra; Sauguet, Isabelle; Da Costa, Florence; Claeyssens, Virginie; Lescanne, Adeline; Lescanne, Michel (March 2009). "Social marketing of a nutritional supplement in Niger" (35). Field Exchange: 28. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 
  12. Lescanne, Michel (November 2002). "Reducing the price of Plumpy’nut" (17). Field Exchange: 23. Retrieved 24 August 2012. 

References

  1. ↑ Rice, Andrew (2 September 2010). "The Peanut Solution". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Nutriset's timeline". Nutriset. Retrieved 28 July 2012.


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