My concern is less with the freeze-drying -- the technology is well-known.
I was interested to learn a few years back that in France, the human milk
banks have relied upon freeze-drying for something like four decades.

My concern is with the commodification of human milk, predatory marketing
designed to exploit new parent fears and concerns, and exploitation of
those with abundant supply (or not enough supply ...).

For companies that seek to turn a parent's own human milk into a powder for
their own use,  I say: Well, OK.  I guess that is a business you can open.
No law against it.  Kind of like the companies that will turn your human
milk into jewelry. I'm wondering why any parent would find it a wise
financial decision to want to expend the $$$$ and effort to send frozen
milk to a place that will freeze-dry it and put it into a bag.  But then --
that is what intense marketing does.  Makes that seem like a wise idea.

The technology of freeze-drying while preserving human milk properties is
valid. The irony is that the technology was explored as a way of increasing
the reach and viability of human milk banks -- and I am firmly on Team
Non-profit Human Milk Bank.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27925493/


-- 
Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC, FILCA
Wyndmoor, PA, USA
Private practice IBCLC, speaker, author, educator, lactation advocate
LizBrooksIBCLC.com    @LizBrooksIBCLC

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