Unregulated Milk

A front-page New York Times news article raises an alarm about what the article calls an "unregulated marketplace" for breastmilk. The article describes not a single instance of an infant who got sick or died from donated or sold breastmilk. It also doesn't mention that, even in the absence of specific regulations about breastmilk, the marketplace is governed by generally applicable civil and criminal laws that prohibit fraud in commerce.The Times article also fails to include response from the milk-sharing Web sites assailed in the article, even though such a response is readily available this morning here.