At our recent second commercial-scale pilot run of human milk at the TetraPak Pilot Plant located in Denton, Texas, we applied light homogenization to our 100% human milk-based products.
“We spent a significant amount of time with neonatologists in NICUs, seeking to better understand how neonatal nutrition has stalled and the opportunities to improve it,” shared Glenn Snow, CEO and Co-Founder of LactaLogics. “One of the concerns we identified was how donor milk would often clog feeding tubes.”
The homogenizer at work during our second commercial-scale pilot run.
Healthy milk fat, one of the important parts of an exclusive human milk diet, sticks to the inside of feeding tubes, the feeding method used with premature infants who are unable to breast or bottle-feed. Not only are critical nutrition elements lost when milk fat can’t get to the infant, but the tubes have to be pulled and changed, causing discomfort.
Homogenization, which is a process that makes breast milk more uniform in size, prevents clogging. Less milk sticks to the inside of the feeding tube and syringe.
“Through our R&D research, we found that the breast milk needs to be homogenized.” continued Snow. “Homogenization allows us to better meet the needs of neonatologists, nurses, staff, and babies with milk that doesn’t clog while keeping the fats and proteins intact.”
Our processes of continuous innovation will maximize lipid and calorie delivery, increasing absorption, and helping premature infants achieve critical growth.
LactaLogics will be bringing our human-milk products to NICUs through our early pilot program and will release the results once they become available.
