Donor milk traditionally sourced online and Ni-Q are at the two extremes of safety and nutrition.

Safety:
• With internet donor milk, there is no real knowledge of the donor (their health history, lifestyle, etc.) or the handling of the donor milk once produced.  There is no guarantee the milk you receive is 100% human milk.  There is no guarantee of the nutritional contents and efficacy of the donor milk.
• Ni-Q performs a detailed donor health screening and microbial and toxicology testing of all donor milk received. Our pasteurization process renders our HDM commercially sterile and we are relentless in investing in the safety of our HDM because we know what’s at stake.  We focus on safety because that is what we would want done to protect our children, too.

Nutrition:
• With internet donor milk, there is highly variable nutrition, because all raw human milk is naturally highly variable.  This results in a parent not knowing what nutrition levels they are feeding their baby and whether it is enough.
• At Ni-Q, our processing addresses the variability of human milk and guarantees HDM Plus to have a minimum of 20 cal/oz and 1.1 grams of protein/100ml.  We provide a nutrition label with each case so every parent has the comfort, knowledge, and security of knowing the nutrition they are feeding their baby.