HUMAN-MILK BANKING - INFLUENCE OF STORAGE PROCESSES AND OF BACTERIAL-CONTAMINATION AN SOME MILK CONSTITUENTS

This paper reviews the effects of storage and bacterial content contam inating human milk on some milk constituents. Moreover, it reviews the inhibitory effect of refrigeration and freezing on bacterial growth. Our results suggest that the type and length of storage have an effect on some milk constituents, that this effect is modulated by the bacte rial contamination of the milk and that refrigeration has a significan t inhibitory effect on bacterial growth which is not observed after fr eezing. This stresses the importance of collecting noncontaminated mil k and justifies the choice of refrigeration at 0-4 degrees C for stora ge up to 8 days.