Someone needs to tell the inventors of the various patents in the genetic
engineering of human milk that formula is considered 4th.  Because it is
obvious that they have ruled out human milk banking.  Taken from patent #
6020015 (one of 50 or so patents on genetic engineering of human milk).

"One advantage of employing chemical synthesis or genetic engineering
techniques for the manufacture of human protein and the host resistance
factors of human milk, is the resulting produced materials would be free of
the AIDS or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), such as HIV-I, HIV-IIa and
other viruses as well as including but not limited to cytomegalic inclusion
virus. In the past, the human milk proteins, particularly the so-called host
resistance factors, have been recovered or produced from fresh human milk.
Since these resulting produced materials are pooled or are produced from
pooled human milk, there is a danger that the resulting produced and
recovered human milk proteins, including the host resistance factors could
contain HIV if one of the contributors to the pooled human milk or the pooled
human milk proteins had AIDS or was injected with HIV. This is not a
reasonable possibility when the human milk proteins, including the so-called
host resistance factors, are produced as recombinant human milk proteins or
recombinant host resistance factors employing genetic engineering techniques.
Similarly, if these human milk proteins or host resistance factors are
manufactured by chemical synthesis which, because of the complexity of these
materials, would be difficult to do, these materials produced by chemical
synthesis would also be free of HIV."

Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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