Article: Breast-milk clinic confronts criticisms.

Byline: Blythe Bernhard

SANTA ANA, Calif. _ A Southern California company looking to profit from the sale of human breast milk has breast-feeding advocates questioning its ethics and safety.

Prolacta Bioscience opened the nation's first commercial milk-processing plant this week in Monrovia, about 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The company will pay hospitals for volunteer mothers' donated milk, pasteurize it in its 15,000-square-foot facility and sell it back to hospitals at a to-be-determined mark up.

Lactation experts are concerned about how the company will fit into the traditionally nonprofit donor-milk market. The Orange County ...

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