magda wrote:
> ... lactoferrin will be to enrich baby milk, which is clearly not
lifesaving.  A
> spokesman for Nutricia, the main Dutch manufacturer of baby milk
...
and the company that pays for the Dutch part of the Herman research
...
> , says it is not
> clear whether human lactoferrin can help to prevent gut infection in
babies.
> It failed to show any benefit in an experiment in which it was added to
baby
> milk powder.
..
They'd like to add it mainly because lactoferrin is one ot the typical
breastmilk substances that makes breastfeeding superior and they will never
be able to do that with for example mother-baby-specific antibodies.
...
> used to produce human milk with then forms the
> basis for dried human milk formula.
>
> If I thought I had the ability or time to write and SF story, this is the
one I
> would choose.  And just because science fiction would be the mode of
choice for
> writing about it does not mean that I think it all that fictional a
possiblity.
...
That's not SF, that's horror! And by the way, lots of items brought up as SF
in stories, turned out to become reality...
...
> Magda
...
In the last outburst of Herman-publicity in The Netherlands there was an
campain of the animal-saving-lobby. They had huge billboards with an
breastfeeding mom and baby, but the photograhp was tricked so that the woman
had four cows utters instead of two breasts.
Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, Maaseik, Belgium

             ***********************************************
The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM)
mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html