High-Temperature Short-Time Pasteurization System for Donor Milk in a Human Milk Bank Setting.

ABSTRACT: Donor milk is the best alternative for the feeding of preterm newborns when mother's own milk is unavailable. For safety reasons, it is usually pasteurized by the Holder method (62.5°C for 30 min). Holder pasteurization results in a microbiological safe product but impairs the activity of many biologically active compounds such as immunoglobulins, enzymes, cytokines, growth factors, hormones or oxidative stress markers. High-temperature short-time (HTST) pasteurization has been proposed as an alternative for a better preservation of some of the biological components of human milk although, at present, there is no equipment available to perform this treatment under the current conditions of a human milk bank. In this work, the specific needs of a human milk bank setting were considered to d

SUBMITTER: Escuder-Vieco D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5958646 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature