In einer eMail vom 14-7-01 14:32:32 West-Europa (zomertijd) schreibt 
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> .  The patenting of human milk components has enormous impact on
> the future of breastfeeding.  You are already seeing the end results

This item has come up before and every time I read it, I find it hard to 
understand how human milk components can be patented? Shouldn´t it be agreed 
upon that if *anyone* should hold the patent it ought to be the mothers who 
make the milk?
If human milk components can be patented, can other human parts or components 
be patented as well? The whole idea seems like horror science fiction to me.

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Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC
MOM, LLLL, primary schoolteacher
Hiilensberg, Germany

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