Second opinion
Take it to the bank, breast milk is best
 By ANDRE PICARD 
Thursday, August 25, 2005 Page A13


Earlier this month, a California company launched the world's first
commercial breast-milk bank.

Prolacta Bioscience plans to obtain breast milk from lactating mothers
around the United States, pasteurize it, and sell it to hospitals for the
treatment of low-birth-weight babies.

"Human breast milk has 100,000 different components and we only really know
what a few thousand of them are and what they do," Elena Medo, chief
executive officer of Prolacta, said at the launch of the venture. "It's an
enormous area of discovery. I'm sure there's a reason for every one of those
components and I'd like to know half of them in my lifetime."

Dr. Medo, a scientist and entrepreneur, is saying what mothers have been
saying for millenniums: Breast is best.
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The tragedy of this story is that a company is commercializing breast milk
at a time when Canada has virtually abandoned its very successful network of
not-for-profit breast-milk banks.
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