Milk Bank Mushrooming Online, FDA Warns Of Contamination
Donating human milk is on the rise and there are tons of websites that deal in such milk bank trade.
Mothers who produces more than enough breast milk and whose toddlers have graduated to solid food donate it to be fed for fragile infants.
Some mothers even sell the excess milk and if taken note of Prolacta Bioscience CEO Scott Elsster $1 is paid for one ounce of the liquid gold, as many have termed it.
The company is based in City of Industry, California, and uses the milk to make fortifiers. Its products are expensive and for a one-day supply the cost may be somewhere between $200 and $300.
However, Prolacta Bioscience is praised by neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) physicians as its products replace fortifiers made of cow's milk, which increases the risk of necro...