There is a huge gap in the knowledge of the vitamin content in human milk and there is no robust optimised methods to measure vitamins in human milk. This situation may reflect both technical challenges in vitamin analysis in a difficult matrix but also the lack of adequate methodology in collecting and in measuring human milk components. The fact that the human milk provides to the young all the necessary nutrients including vitamins means that the overall human milk composition is robust despite the occurrence of temporal variations.
The SVI wants to take an approach whereby the total vitamin content in the human milk will be measured as an integral of a time course analysis of human milk.
First vitamins analysis in human milk are being optimised to enable measurement in micro-samples of milk. Second, to achieve our goal and bring new knowledge to the field of lactation to benefit newborns’ health worldwide, we are looking for a group with the clinical expertise to collect micro-samples of human milk over a period of several months.
3 May 2015
R&D