1. family and parenting
2. babies and toddlers

A Partnership Dedicated to
Ending the Shortage of Donor Milk
Elena Taggart Medo, Chairman and CEO
CONFIDENTIAL, NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION OR DISTRIBUTION WITHOUT PRIOR AUTHORIZATION
About the Mother’s Milk Cooperative
A Michigan Cooperative Business founded with funds
from a USDA Co-Operative Development grant
P development grant
• More than 1,000 active members
in 47 States
• The First and Only Donor Milk Bank
Owned by Moms
• Focused on empowerment of women
Tripled the volume of donor milk in
first year
• Members breastfeed their own
babies longer than average
• Additional benefits will include
access to education, training and
entrepreneurial support
Fragile Patients Deserve Sterile Donor Milk
• Co-op donor milk is the ONLY
donor milk that is
COMMERCIALLY STERILE
• Mother’s Own Milk has 7-9
million immune cells. Add any
and all mother’s milk available
to repopulate immune cells
Co-Op Members Across the US
(November 2014)
Co-Op
members
have tripled
the volume
of raw
donor milk
in the last
year alone
About Co-Op Donor Milk
First in a line of human milk therapies: 100% HM,
commercially sterile, shelf stable, excellent preservation of
human milk attributes
Scope of Testing
• All donor milk is tested for:
• APC, s. aureus, e.coli,
coliforms, yeast and molds
and enterobacteriaceae
• Adulteration w/ water or
any other type of milk
• pH and osmolality
• Nutritional analysis
• Drugs of abuse and ethanol
• Heavy metals
100% of the Raw Milk is Sampled
• Milk collection bags are
disinfected prior to entry into
cleanroom
• Each bag of raw donor milk
becomes a “mini-pool”
• Each mini-pool
• is labeled individually
• is sampled for testing
• is passed/not passed
• Bag becomes part of 1,000
gallon lot after passing all tests
Medolac Processing Facility
• Class 100,000 clean room
• Current capacity 4,000
gallons/month
• Scalable to meet demand
• Professional processing
and CIP system to prevent
biofilm formation
Measuring Attributes
Each pouch individually labeled
• Individual pouch #
• Scannable bar/3D code GS-1
• Use with breast milk tracking
systems
Pre and Post Processing Analysis
• Amino acid yields high
• Lot to lot consistency
• Major and minor nutrients
preserved
• Nutrient stability over time
• Wider range of human milk
oligosaccharides preserved
Amino Acid Retention After Processing
-A Key Indicator of Protein Quality
Amino acid
ASP
(D)
THR
(T)
SER
(S)
GLU
(E)
PRO
(P)
GLY
(G)
ALA
(A)
VAL
(V)
MET
(M)
ILE
(I)
LEU
(L)
TYR
(Y)
PHE
(F)
HIS
(H)
LYS
(K)
ARG
(R)
Lot #1
96%
100%
100%
100%
100%
88%
100%
98%
100%
100%
100%
96%
88%
88%
78%
95%
Lot #2
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
84%
95%
Lot #3
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
97%
100%
81%
90%
Donor Stories-Milk Money
I can’t thank MMC enough
for what they do for
babies and what they have
done for my household. ~
Novela
This program is longl over due and
brings breast milk donation in to
the modern age. MMC is making a
difference in not only the lives of
infants they serve but the donors
that strive to save them. ~Laura
At a dollar an ounce, by the time
my 3 month-old is one year old I
should be able to have quit my
job, finish school , and have some
money put away for a rainy
day!! ~ Janell