The safety of breast milk purchased online throughout the United Kingdom from websites such as “Only The Breast” has been called into question by the BBC’s Inside Out investigative program. “Only the Breast” is a web-based system of classified ads that connects people buying and selling breast milk.
The BBC reported Monday that some of the breast milk being sold online by British mothers contains potentially deadline pathogens. That conclusion was reached after the program sent out a reporter claiming to be the father of a six-month-old baby to purchase milk from a dozen mothers throughout the U.K.
