Arla produces new milk protein

摘要

Arla Foods Ingredients has begun what it claims is the world's first commercial production of a milk protein present in human milk. Osteopontin (OPN) is extracted from bovine milk using a patented process, according to the company. After several years of pilot production, Arla says the completion of process documentation has enabled it to step up to industrial-scale processing.rn"The fact that there is so much more OPN in human milk than bovine milk provides a simple argument for adding it to infant formula. It can be used to make infant formula more like human milk in terms of nutritional profile," says Peter Wejse, project manager. OPN is a key component of human milk, which contains around 140mg a litre. The content of OPN in bovine milk, from which most infant formula is made, is 20mg.