FDA says NO to buying Breast Milk Online

i feel like this article states the obvious lol.

I certainly wouldn't buy breast milk online.

im all for human milk. as a human i think it makes more sense to drink human milk instead of bovine milk. granted you have to take into account who it is coming from as for as health and hygiene goes.

Mr. It's food, for babies. I'm sure they prefer it to come directly from the mother who gave birth to the child, it's not all that great to be honest so idk why anyone would feel the need to have to purchase it online for personal use as an adult. My question is who's providing this surplus of breast milk for online distribution.

The great thing about fresh breast milk is the attractive containers it comes in. I personally prefer the large economy size.

i'm thinking that human milk has got to be the most delicious thing possible, being that we are designed to drink it. does anyone have experience drinking it as an adult? maybe on corn flakes. is there an ice cream called "mom's breastyest"?

Woo, thank god I have the women locked in my basement to produce my supply rather than just buy it online.

I can clearly see the risk factors in selling breast milk over the internet. But may be the FDA needs to do some research on how to create, extract, store and 'share' breast milk. It's sad people don't realize breast milk is an infants first defense against the outside. Why do we deny them of them that?????? The FDA should be about research and education for our youths future!

"The FDA also said that the human milk is not good for use when collected, processed and stored for future use. That increased the risk factors to the baby, it said." (http://current.com/1hqst4c)

Show me the Effects!!!!!! We do it with cows milk......which isn't produced for MAN!

buying breast milk on the net

i dont think so.

thank God i got mine fresh

peace-in

HOW DO YOU GET INFECTED WITH HIV?

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is not spread easily. You can only get HIV if you get infected blood or sexual fluids into your system. You can’t get it from mosquito bites, coughing or sneezing, sharing household items, or swimming in the same pool as someone with HIV.

Some people talk about “shared body fluids” being risky for HIV, but no documented cases of HIV have been caused by sweat, saliva or tears. However, even small amounts of blood in your mouth might transmit HIV during kissing or oral sex. Blood can come from flossing your teeth, or from sores caused by gum disease, or by eating very hot or sharp, pointed food.

To infect someone, the virus has to get past the body’s defenses. These include skin and saliva. If your skin is not broken or cut, it protects you against infection from blood or sexual fluids. Saliva contains chemicals that can help kill HIV in your mouth.

If HIV-infected blood or sexual fluid gets inside your body, you can get infected. This can happen through an open sore or wound, during sexual activity, or if you share equipment to inject drugs.

HIV can also be spread from a mother to her child during pregnancy or delivery. This is called “vertical transmission.” A baby can also be infected by drinking an infected woman’s breast milk. Fact Sheet 611 has more information on pregnancy. Adults exposed to breast milk of an HIV-infected woman may also be exposed to HIV.

http://www.aids.org/topics/aids-factsheets/aids-background-information/what-is-a...

Damn! Now what am I supposed to do with the six gallons I have in my fridge?

Seeing as the HIV virus also can be found in the milk of an HIV-infected mother, that is a wise decision on the part of the FDA. In fact, selling maternal milk online should be banned altogether.

I didn't think anyone would want to buy that online.

good thing i stocked up in advance

Tommic actually makes a good point. I looked into selling my excess milk back when I was breastfeeding mine. The thing is...the companies that legitimately collect milk and perform QA. Don't give a dime to the mothers that donate it. I know I would never give my kid some random unchecked substitute because for all I know that breast milk can contain alcohol, drug traces, or bacteria from an unsanitary breast pump.

So if I wanted to go online and sell my own supply I'd basically just be selling it to every sick pup with a craving for mothers milk. IMO the FDA is only affecting this latter group.

Just another example of our government and the media's "THE INTERNET IS DANGEROUS BUSINESS!" fear mongering bullshit that has no basis in any facts or statistics whatsoever. There are plenty of reputable breast milk donation centers you can purchase milk from, buying it in person or online makes no difference.

If even ONE CHILD died from breastmilk bought online do you realize how big of a story that would be? I'm literally saying if ONE child died that would become a massive news story. It would become "The Breastmilk Tragedy of 2011", get it's own wikipedia page and shit. But in actuality like the razor blades in Halloween candy story it's an Old Wive's Tale. Spread, I would imagine, by the lobbyists of Powdered Milk companies. Who have been trying to prove for years that powdered milk is safer than breastmilk to the detriment of our children's health....

Do you remember how big of a news story it was when ONE prostitute was killed because of ONE Craigslist ad? JUST ONE! (Compared to how many street prostitutes that are killed every year) And then every news story was "IS INTERNET PROSTITUTION DEADLY BUSINESS?!?!?!!?!" Whilst hundreds of thousands of people die in automobile accidents... yet, no one is saying we should ban cars despite that FACT.

Old people are, and always will be, afraid of the Internet. My parents are always like "but if I buy something online how do I know it's a real ad?" and I'm like "MOM! It's Amazon ffs!" And shit, Paypal will refund you the full price of the item in the event that it's not a real ad!

It's a warning, not a ban. I don't see what the big deal is.

This is one where you should disengage your reactionary anti-government trigger-finger and try using your brains.

This is food that people are giving INFANTS ok?
They're buying it ONLINE.

1. there's ZERO quality control. How do you know it's even coming out of a human breast??????????????????? Remember, this is for an INFANT, you can't afford to just chance this stuff.

2. Storage. How long do you think that stuff lasts? How can you imagine that breast milk (if that's what it even is) will be perfectly ok once it's been sitting in a room temperature container a few days and sent to you through the post?

3. Even if it IS breast milk, how do you even know how OLD it is? They could've been pumping that stuff and storing it up for months, freezing it, thawing it... you don't have any idea at all and no way to find out.

If these questions haven't occurred to you, you clearly shouldn't be even thinking of having a kid. Get out of the gene pool, you're stinking up the place.

May be the FDA should research it! I don't understand why we can't give babies other mothers breast milk. I have a friend who adopted an infant soon after she had given birth to her second child. She is breastfeeding both of them! Breast milk is naturally created for human while formula and cows milk isn't but we can feed them to our children?

And they should deny it. Lemme get this straight, someone wants to have a baby, has a baby, and then either does not want to breast feed their own child, tough luck or if in case they have a physical disability then there are alternitives. But let the buyer beware.

You should never give a child breast milk, unless you want them to be developmentally challenged.

...euwwwwwwww...

Whatever FDA - if a mother is dumb enough to give her child internet breast milk then it becomes a game of Survival of the Smartest.

More fodder for the "bOObies" grope ! Huzzah !