It ay be useful to have information about what components are destroyed due
to pasteurization in order to have a discussion about risks and benefits.

You may not be aware of the tables from La Trobe's department of
microbiology:

Tables of Antimicrobial Factors and Microbial Contaminants in Human Milk
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/microbiology/milk.html

In particular this one:

Effect of heat treatment or storage on antimicrobial factors in human milk
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/microbiology/table7.html

-- Jodine Chase


On 11/22/08 3:56 PM, "Christine Bussman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I know that the standard from milk banks is pasteurized donor milk, but
> I do wonder at whether some of these babies would be better off if the
> donor milk was not pasteurized.  It seems that at least many of the
> components in breast milk could be destroyed by the pasteurization.  Of
> course pasteurized human milk is preferable to artificial baby milks.
> Perhaps from a public health perspective, which is concerned with
> statistics rather than individuals, pasteurized is better than
> unpasteurized. However, I'm not sure that there are not individual
> babies who would be better off with all of the components, even at
> slight risk of disease.
> 
> I'm just thinking out loud here, and wondering what others think.
> 
> Christine Bussman

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