Nutrition seminar promotes milk

JAKARTA: Around 200 mothers, members of the Family Welfare Movement from all over Jakarta, attended an educational seminar on nutrition held in Jakarta on Thursday.

The event was held as part of the 2008 milk campaign, a joint effort of Tetra Pak Indonesia, the Health Ministry and the Agriculture Ministry to boost milk consumption. , 

"Milk consumption in Indonesia is still very low, an average of 9 liters per person per year," a director general at the Agriculture Ministry Chairul Rachman said.   |  Fri, 11/21/2008 11:33 AM  |  City

"But milk is more accessible for people; we rarely see people who are allergic to milk compared with other kinds of food allergy," Chairul said. -- JP

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