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There are start-up milk products that could prevent milk shortage and become formula milk alternatives in years to come. These milk alternatives are using bioengineering to create new baby formula products, and scientists are hopeful that it will be a better substitute for breastmilk.
ABC News(TEL AVIV, Israel) When Nurit Argov-Argaman was raising three young children while trying to advance in her career, she was struggling with time-management issues involving baby formula versus breast milk. "Infant formula was one of the best options that I had," said Argov-Argaman, the chief technology officer of the Israeli dairy alternative startup Wilk. Argov-Argaman, who is a lactation scientist by training, decided she could "help bridge the gap" between baby formula and breastmilk by making a product that more closely resembled the latter. The majority of women in the U.S. bottle-feed their children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although both the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatricians recommend women exclusively breastfeed their babies for the first six months. Three startups, Wilk, Biomilq and Haliana, are using bioengineering to create new baby formula products that scientists hope will b
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