“No child went hungry then because there was an abundance of Nutribun.”
What Vera Files found
The Department of Health’s Operation Timbang in 1976 found that 5.8% of Filipino children suffered from protein-energy malnutrition six years after Nutribun was first distributed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Imee Marcos made this claim around 6 June 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 13 June 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Imee Marcos has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 7 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.