Title of Presentation
Start Date
22-2-2019 2:00 PM
Location
Withers 107
Description
Donor human milk is a necessary secondary feeding option when mother’s own milk is unavailable. To ensure safety for premature and medically fragile infants, milk banks pasteurize donated milk. During pumping, storage, and pasteurization, all milk is exposed to light. Currently, milk banks do not regulate light exposure. Riboflavin, thiamine, and vitamin A are vitamins that are highly light labile. In this study, we aim to determine if light exposure during pumping, storage, and pasteurization in a milk bank setting causes degradation of vitamins in human milk.
Keywords
donor human milk; light exposure; vitamins
Poster Number
18
Effect of Light Exposure During Pumping and Holder Pasteurization on Vitamin Concentrations in Human Milk
Withers 107
Donor human milk is a necessary secondary feeding option when mother’s own milk is unavailable. To ensure safety for premature and medically fragile infants, milk banks pasteurize donated milk. During pumping, storage, and pasteurization, all milk is exposed to light. Currently, milk banks do not regulate light exposure. Riboflavin, thiamine, and vitamin A are vitamins that are highly light labile. In this study, we aim to determine if light exposure during pumping, storage, and pasteurization in a milk bank setting causes degradation of vitamins in human milk.
Your Title/College/Department/Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Nutrition, College of Arts and Sciences