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February 2011 saw the installation of the first S180 Sterifeed ‘Safe Pasteurisation System’ in Malaysia. Hospital Sibu on the Island of Sarawak, Malaysia, purchased the system for their NICU department.

The pasteuriser is being used for treating mother’s milk fed from mother to baby.

The Sterifeed safe pasteurisation system eliminates HIV, CMV, MRSA, Group B streptococcal and other bacteria which are harmful to newborns. For these reasons Hospital Sibu decided to purchase a safe pasteurisation system to treat the mothers’ milk as a method of quality control before feeding it to her baby.

We would like to thank our distributor in Malaysia, HNS Medical and in particular Faizul Rahman the project manager and Dr Chein from Hospital Sibu for all their hard work in getting the Sterifeed ‘Safe Pasteurisation System’ project up and running at Hospital Sibu.

Sterifeed supplied the pasteuriser to the first Human Milk Bank in Portugal, opened at Maternidade Dr Alfredo da Costa, in Lisbon, in August 2009. It’s purpose is to serve the VLBW population of its NICU and from NICUs in the Lisbon area. In its first year, it has recruited 65 registered donors, of whom 35 are still donating. The milk bank staff are processing 60 to 180 litres per month, serving 2 NICUs and about 90 ELBW/VLBW babies received pasteurised human milk when their mothers milk was not enough.

Sterifeed introduce 2 new products to their range.

Our best selling 50ml printed Breast Milk storage bottles now have printed graduations. These breast milk storage and collection bottles are now far easier to read than the previously engraved graduations. All Sterifeed storage and collection bottles now have clear, accurate easy to read graduations.

By popular demand Sterifeed has recently launched a 120ml glass bottle. Glass bottles are sometimes a preferred option, due to concerns surrounding BPA problems. Glass bottles are viewed as the safest option for a chemical free bottle. Glass has the purity of structure that makes any interaction with stored liquid impossible. Glass bottles also have the great advantage of preserving a certain temperature for a longer period of time. They do not dilate when it is too warm or shrink when exposed to lower temperatures.

Sterifeed Glass bottles are made from Borosilicate laboratory glass made of SIMAX
Size 120ml
Printed Graduations

The remit for the National Institute for Health and Clinical excellence was to produce a short clinical guideline on the use of human donor breast milk for preterm babies. Sterifeed has been campaigning for years for tighter regulation on the treatment of donated human breast milk.

We are absolutely delighted with the guidelines and the suggested guidance on best practices. We believe the guidelines to be hugely important as they will give confidence to neonatologist that the milk is treated according to a strict quality controlled treatment program . Improved guidelines will help with the development of new Milk Banks. Human Milk Banking has been around for 100 years and is still very much in its infancy on a national and international level..

The most important point to note with regards to processing the milk was recommendation 1.2.61 “ Pasteurise donated milk at 62.5°C for 30 minutes in a human milk pasteuriser. Rapidly cool the milk to a temperature of 4°C or lower. Remove one bottle for testing, them move the remainder of the batch to the freezer.”

The key factor in this statement is the rapid controlled cooling of the milk to a final temperature of 4°c. Pasteurisers which use tap water to cool the milk do not have controlled cooling . Tap water cooled pasteurisers differ from location to location, time of day and year and can not achieve the required criteria. We are delighted NICE has clearly pointed out this risk in its recommendations.