Study finds cow milk is added to breast milk and sold to parents online

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-04/nch-sfc040115.php

Public Release: 6-Apr-2015
Nationwide Children's Hospital

A study published today on the safety of human breast milk bought over the Internet found that 10 percent of samples contained added cow's milk. The discovery that purchased samples of human milk may be purposely "topped off" with cow's milk or infant formula confirms a danger for the large number of babies receiving the purchased milk due to medical conditions. These babies are also vulnerable to the risk of infectious disease from bacterial and viral contamination of such milk, which was identified in a prior study by the same research team led by Nationwide Children's Hospital.

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