Method of producing nutritional products from human milk tissue and compositions thereof

• US 7,914,822 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2009
• Issued: 03/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prolacta Bioscience Inc.
• Original Assignee: Prolacta Bioscience Inc.
• Inventors: Medo, Elena Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley; Christina
• Application Number:
  US12/372,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20090258121A1
• Time in Patent Office: 770 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 424/535
• CPC Class Codes: A23C 9/206 Colostrum; Human milk
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 35/20 Milk; Whey; Colostrum
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 1/00 Drugs for disorders of the alimentary tract or the digestive system
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 25/00 Drugs for disorders of the nervous system
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/00 Drugs for disorders of the metabolism of the blood or the extracellular fluid A61P7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 37/00 Drugs for immunological or allergic disorders

Abstract

Methods of isolating, treating, storing and processing human milk, as well as nutritional formulations of human milk comprising protective human milk proteins.

Claims

1. A method of making a pasteurized fortified human milk composition comprising the steps of:

(a) collecting a sample of human milk from a donor in a collection device, wherein the collection device comprises a computer chip capable of recording temperature variations and handling conditions of the collection device;

(b) storing the sample of human milk obtained from the donor; and

(c) processing the sample of human milk obtained from the donor, wherein processing comprises the steps of

(i) conducting a nutritional analysis on the sample of human milk;

(ii) conducting a first fortification of the sample of human milk with heat-resistant nutrients from human milk;

(iii) pasteurizing the sample of first fortified human milk;

(iv) conducting a second fortification of the sample of pasteurized first fortified human milk comprising addition of human immunoglobulins and/or human milk cells; and

(v) testing the sample of fortified human milk to determine whether the pasteurization was successful, wherein such testing is done after step (c)(iii) or alternatively after step (c)(iv).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer chip is further capable of recording the origin of the sample, contents of the collection device, volume of the collection device, shipping dates of the sample or lot number of the sample.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the sample of human milk is frozen prior to the processing step.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the collection device further comprises a twist-turn valve to open and release an amount of milk through a one-way valve into a test vial.