There is a booming trade in mothers’ breast milk. Prolacta Bioscience, a for-profit company, started marketing a breast-milk concentrate for $48 an ounce. Some mothers are also selling their own milk on the Internet for $1 to $2.50 an ounce. But all this is going on with little regulation and raise a lot of ethical and safety questions. Laraine Lockhart-Borman, who runs the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Denver at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center said that this might affect the people who are in need.
