On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:14:43 -0600, Jason & Sheena Carnes
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> Hello all, I've searched the archives and my BAB but haven't came up with
> anything.  I got a call from a mom last night who's babe is 12 weeks old.
> She opened up a bag of frozen EBM, it had been in the deep freeze about 10
> weeks.  She said when she opened 1 bag it had a strong fish smell...so she
> tried another bag from the same week and same thing.  Milk looked fine, a
> newer frozen bag smelled fine.  She said there was no fish in her freezer.

I suspect that the lipids are breaking down- most moms think of it as
a spoiled smell but she might have been interpreting it differently.
   another thought is that she is either taking fish oils, a vitamin
that is causing the smell or - highly unlikely to cause the odor-
eating fish or something that is causing it.

recently someone recommended gentle agitation to mix the fat back into
the milk as opposed to shaking in order to not disrupt the lipids and
cause that odor.   You should be able to find that in the archives in
the last couple of months.

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