PHILIPPINES: FOOD AUTHORITIES THREATEN TO BAN SALE OF FRUIT-FLAVOURED CONDOMS UNLESS MANUFACTURER JUSTIFIES NEED.
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566021
PHILIPPINES: FOOD AUTHORITIES THREATEN TO BAN SALE OF FRUIT-FLAVOURED CONDOMS UNLESS MANUFACTURER JUSTIFIES NEED.
- Title: PHILIPPINES: FOOD AUTHORITIES THREATEN TO BAN SALE OF FRUIT-FLAVOURED CONDOMS UNLESS MANUFACTURER JUSTIFIES NEED.
- Date: 11th July 1995
- Summary: MANILA, PHILIPPINES (JULY 11, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/SV POSTERS ADVERTISING CONDOMS (2 SHOTS) 0.05 2. MCU STRAWBERRY FLAVOURED CONDOM, POSTER ADVERTISING CONDOMS (2 SHOTS) 0.12 3. MCU/CU NEWSPAPER HEADLINES SAYING "CONDOM-PROMOTING GOVERNMENT DRAWS THE LINE ON FLAVOURS"/ "CONDOM FIRMS ASKED: WHY THE FLAVOURS?"(ENGLISH) (3 SHOTS) 0.22 4. GV/SV EXT. BUREAU OF FOOD AND DRUGS BUILDING (2 SHOTS) 0.28 5. MCU DR. QUINTIN KINTANAR, DIRECTOR OF PHILIPPINE BUREAU OF FOOD AND DRUGS, "IF AT ALL, THERE IS NO GOOD JUSTIFICATION, IF THEY CANNOT SUPPORT THEIR POSITION THAT THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE FLAVOUR OR SCENT, THEN WE CAN REMOVE THOSE FLAVOURED AND SCENTED CONDOMS." (ENGLISH) 0.53 6. GV CATHOLIC CHURCH 0.57 7. GV/SV CATHOLIC BISHOPS' NEWS CONFERENCE (4 SHOTS) 1.10 8. CU COMDOMS/SV WORKER AT FACTORY SORTING CONDOMS (2 SHOTS) 1.20 9. GV POSTERS/MCU CRAIG DARDEN, GENERAL MANAGER OF DKT INTERNATIONAL SPEAKING (ENGLISH) (2 SHOTS) 1.36 10.SV DARDEN TASTING ONE OF THE CONDOMS 1.48 11. SV WOMAN BUYING CONDOMS (2 SHOTS) 1.55 12. SV INT CONDOM CAFE 1.59 13. CU CONDOM CAFE SIGN 2.01 14. SV SAFE SEX POSTER 2.05 SEQ.10: TRANSCRIPT; DARDEN: "IF IT'S SUFFICIENT BY JUST ADDING A LITTLE BIT OF FLAVOURING TO GET PEOPLE IN HIGH RISK SEX SITUATIONS TO USE THAT CONDOM, THEN I THINK IT'S WORTH IT." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 26th July 1995 13:00
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- Location: MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES
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- Country: Phillippines
- Reuters ID: LVA5JWDZKPK4MS9XIH04WLCJ61E4
- Story Text: Philippine food authorities, backed by the powerful Roman Catholic church, have threatened to ban the sale of fruit-flavoured condoms unless the manufacturer can justify the need to add flavours.
A strawberry-flavoured condom has aroused the ire of the church, rekindling a war between a powerful religious lobby and a government bent on curbing the country's population growth.
Early this year, a local lay group called the Couples for Christ asked the Department of Health to ban the sale of fruit-flavored condoms because, they say, it promotes "perverted sex." The manufacturers, United States-based DKT International, said their aim was to promote safe sex to curb the menace of AIDS and flavoured condoms were a stout weapon against it.
The Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs director, Quintin Kintanar, has asked DKT to submit studies to prove its contention.
"If they cannot support their position that they should be allowed to have flavours or scents, then we can remove those flavoured and scented condoms," he said.
DKT has sold about 2.5 million of the condoms since they were introduced in the Philippines last year and demand was growing, DKT country manager Craig Darden said.
Of the total condom sales for the first quarter of 1995, one third of those sold were the flavoured ones.
He denied DKT was promoting promiscuity, saying the company was in the business of saving lives. He said research had shown Filipinos in "high-risk sex encounters" -- women working in bars and men who go to prostitutes - were not using condoms because they did not like their taste or smell.
The state campaign for wider use of contraceptives has strained relations between the church and the government of President Fidel Ramos, the first Protestant leader of this 85 percent Catholic country.
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