Showing posts with label milk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milk. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Breast milk donation--Guinness World Record

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  While ' altruism isn't enough ' when it comes to SoHOs as Sally Satel reminds us, it's well worth celebrating.   Here...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Baby formula and U.S. supply chains

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 Martha Gershon points me to her latest column, to be followed in due time by a book on feeding babies in America. The U.S. needs a reliable...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The EU considers tightening bans on compensating donors of Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)

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 Peter Jaworski considers an  EU proposal this month to harmonize across the EU bans on paying donors for Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)....
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Markets in human milk, placenta, and feces

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I've blogged earlier about markets for breast milk, but here is an article that considers them also in connection with placenta and fece...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Artificial breast milk may be on the cellular agriculture horizon

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 Cellular agriculture isn't just aspiring to produce meat; now breast milk is queueing up as a (still distant) possibility. The New York...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The market for (and marketing of) baby formula

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  The Lancet has a series of articles on baby formula .  It begins with this editorial, and is followed by three articles: Unveiling the pre...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Shortages of blood, and breast milk

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  The pandemic is putting strains on many supply chains, including those for donated (unpaid) medical supplies like blood and breast milk.  ...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Breast milk and the marketing of breast milk substitutes during the pandemic

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  Here's an article in the Lancet: Marketing of breastmilk substitutes during the COVID-19 pandemic by Christoffer van Tulleken, Charlo...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Regulation of human and animal milk, in the U.S. and France

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Here's an article full of interesting observations: Mathilde Cohen, Regulating Milk: Women and Cows in France and the United States, ...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Breast milk sales and bans

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Cambodia is banning more than surrogacy (see Wednesday's post ): Ban on breast milk sales throws spotlight on growing international tr...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

The market for breast milk

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Should breast milk be bought and sold? Andrew Pollack in the NY Times has the story: Breast Milk Becomes a Commodity, With Mothers Caugh...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Breast milk plan to purchase and sell breast milk cancelled in Detroit

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Steve Leider writes: "An Oregon-based company Medolac (partnering with the Mothers Milk Cooperative) was trying to expand its progr...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Markets for blood, milk, and sperm (new book)

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Here's the announcement of a forthcoming book from Harvard University Press (by Professor Kara Swanson, whose earlier papers include Th...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Breast milk exchange?

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Ben Greiner writes: This might be an interesting upcoming story on repugnance: Due to the general positive effects, but also the socia...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

Breast milk

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The barriers to sale of human breast milk seem to be falling. Duncan Gilchrist points me to this article in Wired: Liquid Gold: The Booming...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

The market for mothers' milk

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The main consumers of human breast milk are infants, but here's a story that caught my eye: A Manhattan chef recently began serving che...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Breast feeding

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Some people find the sight of breast feeding repugnant, and the usual way that makes the news is with a story like this: Breastfeeding '...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Market for human breast milk

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The New Yorker reports on mother's milk: Baby Food . It turns out that this is a repugnant market : "Can a human-milk bank pay a w...