Hi Christine,
There's been a little research on this with premmies and basically mothers
own milk is preferably to pasteurised donor milk (just what the difference
might be between mothers own milk and unpasteurised  donor milk is another
question). However, you are doing a huge disservice to human milk and a huge
service to infant formula by considering that the only important factors
lacking from pasteurised donor milk are live immune components and that
there are no ingredients that damage the immune system in infant formula. It
just aint so.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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From: "Christine Bussman" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:04 AM
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Subject: [LACTNET] milk sharing, pasteurization, and risk

> The various threads related to this topic recently have me wondering,
> how much study has actually been done on the health effects of
> pasteurized breast milk?  If we take direct breastfeeding of the
> mother's own milk as the standard, then what are the risks of mother's
> milk in a bottle?  Even more so, what are the risks of pasteurized milk
> in that bottle, considering that pasteurization kills all the enzymes
> and all the live immune components.
>
> My own (unconsidered) opinion has been that pasteurized breast milk is
> basically the very best 'formula'.  It has a perfect balance of
> nutrients that makers of formula are always striving for (if we give
> them the benefit of the doubt), but not much else.  I'm wondering if the
> scientific studies agree with this, or if there are perhaps some immune
> components that are not killed off by pasteurization.
>
> Also, does anyone know if all milk banks pasteurize the milk?
>
> Christine Bussman, LLLL
>
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