This week, BIOMILQ announced that they have successfully made the world’s first cell-cultured human milk from mammary cells outside of the breast. In under a year, the team has catapulted the human milk and lactation industry into the spotlight. We did an interview with Michelle Egger, the company’s CEO and cofounder, in June of last year.
While breastfeeding is medically recommended for its numerous health and developmental benefits, only 25.6% of women exclusively breastfeed for the six months recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization. There are a variety of reasons why breastfeeding directly from the source can be difficult, including but not limited to: latching issues, a fussy or sick baby, birth complications, lack of support or education, discomfort or pain, exhaustion, and inadequate milk supply.
The approximately 67.3 billion dollar infant and baby industry has bridged infant feeding gaps strictly with bovine-based infant formula, until now. While bovine-based infant formula offers its own conveniences and benefits, it lacks the antibodies and complexity found in breast milk, negatively impacts the environment through gas emissions, and creates excessive water and plastic packaging waste.
BIOMILQ’s revolutionary supplemental feeding breakthrough is as close to breastmilk as possible. It contains the majority of nutritional complexities of breastmilk, with the practicality of formula. While BIOMILQ’s 100% human milk lacks antibodies, BIOMILQ’s Chief Science Officer and cofounder, Dr. Leila Strickland, says, “even without antibodies, the nutritional and bioactive composition of our product will be much closer to that of breastmilk than to bovine-based infant formula...our product will support immune development, microbiome population, intestinal maturation, and brain development in ways that bovine-based infant formula fundamentally cannot.”
BIOMILQ’s patent-pending process has the potential to disrupt the infant formula industry and help to reverse the detrimental effects of CO2 emissions that bovine-based formula has had on the environment.
While there is a long road ahead to getting human-cultured breast milk on grocery store shelves, this is still a monumental moment for infant nutrition. BIOMILQ very well may be the new titan to emerge in the infant supplemental feeding industry.
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