Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their assessment of the scale of the sale of human breast milk and human breast milk products through (1) retail outlets, and (2) the internet.

The experience of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is that the sale of breast milk is centred on a reasonably small number of enterprises, selling direct to the final consumer on a limited scale. The FSA strongly advises against anyone purchasing and consuming human breast milk or products made from or containing human breast milk because such milk is unlikely to have been collected or stored hygienically and could be unsafe.