>Heather,
>
>A mother with a lipase issue (evidenced by a soapy or rotten
>smell/taste to her milk after it's been frozen and thawed, due to
>excess lipase in her milk which begins digesting the fat in the milk)
>might heat her milk before storing it in order to disable the action
>of the lipase and extend its "shelf life," so to speak.  There is a
>method and a specific temperature for heating this milk so that only
>the lipase (and nothing else) is disabled.


Thanks, Diana. I knew this, but had not understood that this was why 
Celia was heatiing the milk first....sorry.

Heather Welford Neil

NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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