- NeoLacta Lifesciences has been granted permission to import breast milk
- They will supply milk to the five breast banks in neonatal wards across Australia
- Experts warn that illicit substances can be transferred through breast milk
- But so far the milk will not be made commercially available
An Indian company plans to import breast milk to Australians for $300 a litre.
NeoLacta Lifesciences was granted permission to start selling their breast milk on Aussie shores last year, with the average price of pasteurised milk overseas in excess of a few hundred dollars.
But it won’t be made available to the general public, rather given to the five breast milk banks in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland to feed premature or sick babies.
The company website states the promoters of NeoLacta ran a successful dairy business in Australia and it is offering bottles of ‘ready-to-feed human milk’ made in a ‘world-class, pharmaceutical-grade facility.’
At present mothers who are lactating and are in excess supply are able to donate their milk to neonatal wards but as demand grows there isn’t always an abundance in storage.
But experts warn that diseases and STD’s like HIV, hepatitis, syphilis and the Zika virus could all be present in breast milk, but there is only a small chance of transmission.
Source: Daily Mail
