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Janice Reynolds <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:02:48 -0600
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Canadian Medical Association Journal:

 Milk sharing: boon or biohazard?

 

NEWS

January 25, 2011

 

http://www.cmaj.ca/earlyreleases/25jan11_milk-sharing-boon-or-biohazard.dtl

More than two decades after fears of HIV transmission forced the closure of
all but one of Canada's 23 milk banks, regulators, medical professionals and
mothers remain divided on the safety of sharing breast milk. 

Increased public pressure, regulatory oversight and evidence of the efficacy
of modern screening and pasteurization processes are speeding efforts across
the country to reopen milk banks to serve hospitalized babies -
paradoxically at the same time health officials are warning mothers against
the dangers of informally sharing their breast milk. 

Confounding the debate is the Janus-like nature of the milk itself. Today,
breast milk's nutritional merits as a food are difficult to separate from
its "ick" factor as a body fluid capable of transmitting disease, says Dr.
Sharon Unger, a neonatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario,
and professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto. 

(see link for full article)

(very interesting statements made by both sides)

Janice Reynolds

Saskatchewan, Canada

 

 

 


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