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Plumpy'Nut may be referred to in scientific literature as a [[Therapeutic food#Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food|Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food]] (RUTF) alongside other RUTFs such as BP100.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BP-100™ RUTF Therapeutic food |publisher=Compact for Life |url=http://www.compactforlife.com/bp-100-rutf/ |access-date=10 April 2012}}</ref>
Nutriset has been criticized by [[Médecins Sans Frontières]] for enforcing its Plumpy'nut [[patent]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=MSF: Nutriset patent impeding access to treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition|date=13 November 2009 |url=http://www.msfaccess.org/content/msf-nutriset-patent-impeding-access-treatment-severe-acute-malnutrition|access-date=8 Nov 2015}}</ref> However, {{
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While the majority of Plumpy'Nut was made in France as of 2010, this therapeutic food is easily produced<ref name=nyt/> and can be made locally in peanut-growing areas by mixing peanut paste with a slurry of other ingredients provisioned by Nutriset.<ref name="network">{{Cite web |title=The PlumpyField network : how it works |publisher=Nutriset |url=http://www.nutriset.fr/en/international-networks/plumpyfield-network/plumpyfield-how-it-works.html?searched=plumpyfield&advsearch=oneword&highlight=ajaxSearch_highlight+ajaxSearch_highlight1 |access-date=3 August 2011}}</ref>
A number of partner companies and one non-profit organization in the U.S. state of [[Rhode Island]] make Plumpy'Nut. There are six factories in African countries ([[Niger]], [[Burkina Faso]], [[Ethiopia]], [[Sudan]], [[Madagascar]], [[Kenya]]), one is in [[Haiti]] and another one in [[India]].<ref name=network/>
Plumpy'Nut is distributed from the manufacturer to geographic areas of need through a complex [[supply chain]]. Forward (downstream) information flow, such as projections of need, [[order processing]], and [[payment processing]] , and
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