One of the uses of whey proteins is in the production of infant formula.  A
pdf file that gives us an inside look at the dairy industy and its interests is
in the following pdf file:
http://jds.fass.org/cgi/reprint/81/3/597.pdf

It is the Marschall Rhone-Poulenc Award Lecture by J.N. de Wit of the Centre
for Protein Technology Wageningen Agricultural University on the "Nnutritional
and functional characteristics of whey proteins in food products."

J.N. de Wit states, " Research activities are now increasingly focused on the
use of milk proteins as nutritional ingredients in milk that has been altered
to resemble human milk and in dietetic, health, and functional foods."

This interest in components of human milk is increasingly apparent in many
biotech industries.  The components (proteins) are genetically engineered but
the basis of their knowledge on these components comes from human milk research.
For example, prebiotic and probiotic products (for use in yogurts, drinks,
and infant formulas) are using gmo'd components modeled after human milk in
order to create the right gut flora.  Wyeth has a patent application in which it
discusses the use of sialyllactose, a human milk oligosaccharide in order to
create their nutritional composition.

While we can be amazed that human milk properties are considered very
valuable to many of these industries. I believe that the silence about the use of
human milk research in order to market products and the patenting of methods to
imitate those components has chilling implications.  In a world where we have
to mute the message of breastfeeding's health protective properties, we have
industries marketing their wares based on those protective properties. Whose
reality are we suppose to believe?
Valerie W. McClain, IBCLC

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