Coventry: According to an investigation, breast milk, that is being sold by British mothers online contains potentially deadly bacteria.
It is said that a BBC Inside Out reported posed as a father to buy breast milk from mothers advertising on the internet. 12 purchases were analysed by experts at Coventry University.
A third of the samples contained E.coli, two contained candida, and one contained pseudomonas aeruginosa- a deadly bacteria.
Dr Steele from Queen Mary University of London told Inside Out that parents have “heard the message that breast is best, which is absolutely the case but this is stuff bought off the internet. You don't know the seller, you don't know how they've been storing it, you don't know what it contains and, more pertinently, they're often doing this for profit and that poses the risk that they may tamper with it, water it down, be it with water, formula, cows milk or soya milk.”
Dr Steele further stated that the issue was a “real problem for infant health”, also adding, “We don't want to see a situation where a baby dies as a consequence.”
