I repeatedly asked the same question that Valerie and Marsha posed:  Why is
it necessary to use breast milk as the monitoring fluid when urine, blood,
and even hair could be used?  I don't buy that it is "readily available" -
here in California, as in all of the US, there's a whole lot more of these
other fluids - and I also learned that the machines needed to test human
milk are very costly and not easily available.

The reason it is being used is the results the environmentalists got in
Sweden - they were VERY successful in getting very strict laws against
contaminants thanks to the publicity of the contaminants in the mom's milk.

My response is that the results will be completely different here in
California  - the contaminants will stay, and breastfeeding will be
"sacrificed at the altar of the environmental activists"  (to paraphrase
our oft-used statement).

However, when I speak out, I get challenged as if I didn't care about the
Environment... as if in oposing this method of monitoring I am against ALL
monitoring or ALL change!

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC
(Speaking here ONLY for myself and not for any other organization I belong
to!)

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