Prolacta Bioscience Release: Groundbreaking Study Demonstrates Benefits of Exclusively Human Milk-Based Diet for Very Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

MONROVIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prolacta Bioscience, the first and only company to offer human milk fortifier (HMF) made from 100% human breast milk for premature and critically ill infants, has announced the results of a groundbreaking study that will have long-term benefits for the nutritional care of very low-birth-weight preterm infants (less than 2 pounds, 12 ounces or 1250 grams) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The study was published in The Journal of Pediatrics December 28, 2009 online edition at www.jpeds.com.

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