Michel Lescanne
Appearance
Michel Lescanne | |
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Occupation(s) | 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]
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- 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.
- Schofield, Hugh (8 April 2010). "Legal fight over Plumpy'nut, the hunger wonder-product". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- Ducable, Guillaume (6 November 2009). "Nutriset. Entreprise responsable". Le Journal des entreprises (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- 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.
- Enserink, Martin (3 October 2008). "Patents: A Recipe for Problems?". Science. 322 (5898): 38. doi:10.1126/science.322.5898.38. PMID 18832624.
- Enserink, Martin (3 October 2008). "The Peanut Butter Debate". Science. 322 (5898): 36–38. doi:10.1126/science.322.5898.36. PMID 18832623.
- "Ma pâte à base d'arachide évite l'hospitalisation aux enfants" (PDF). Le Parisien (in French). 11 June 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2012.[permanent dead link]
- "Nutriset: une belle histoire" (in French). Le monde comme il va. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- "FOOD: Plumpy'nut patent under pressure". Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN). United Nations. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
- Lescanne, Michel (March 2005). "Letter on commercial production of RUTF" (24). Field Exchange: 17. Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
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References
- ^ Rice, Andrew (2 September 2010). "The Peanut Solution". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Nutriset's timeline". Nutriset. Retrieved 28 July 2012.