Probably the formula companies do.

That's how they figure out what they are going to genetically engineer next to add to their commercial products to make them "more like mothers' milk".

Trouble is, they don't learn enough about these "ingredients" to know what normal human levels are. So one company puts a lot of their new genetically engineered product, because more is better, right? Then the competitor puts in half that amount because - well, because the competitor put that stuff in and they want to stay competitive. But neither of them know the range of normal of the real version made in human breasts.

Remind them that human milk is the Biological Norm and that Nature did not plan for human babies to have nutrient deficiencies, or starve for 2 days waiting for the "real" milk to come in.

Remind them it is up to them to prove that any human milk substitute is better than the Biological Norm for normal human babies. Give them links to DHHS, CDC, USBC, AHRQ, the ABM, AAP Policy Stmt on Bf & Human Milk, and so on.

Then ask them what their REAL problem or question is about human milk. Somehow, I doubt that it is about normal levels of specific nutrients.

Notice that WalMart does sell their own private brand of human milk substitute. The FDA requires that such substitutes be fairly equivalent to human milk in basic nutrients, so maybe WalMart should check with their own human milk substitute-making labs to answer their question.

Phyllis Adamson
... thinking twice now about going to WalMart ever again ...

---- Pam McArthur-Elliott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Does anyone know of a lab that does nutritional analasyis of an individual's
breastmilk? I have been asked by someone in the corporate office of Walmart.

Thanks,
Pam McArthur RNC, IBCLC
Rogers, AR

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Glendale, AZ.
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