Ni-Q offers significant advantages in safety, nutrition, and knowledge for mothers and their babies:

• Safety: Unlike FCMB, Ni-Q performs forensic-level testing upfront – once donor milk is received – prior to pooling milk for processing.  We also perform a full complement of tests (microbial, toxicology, protein analysis, etc.) to ensure every shipment Ni-Q receives meets our safety and inclusion standards, as well as that the milk received from each donor only contains milk from that donor. 

Not all FCMB’s test before pooling; nor do they validate that the milk received is from one donor. 

Ni-Q’s process also achieves commercial sterility, which eradicates bacteria and viruses. Studies continue to show that the FCMB process does not achieve commercial sterility and does not eradicate all viruses, including Bacillus Cereus.¶

• Nutrition: FCMB milk offers high variability of nutrition per ounce, given the high variability nature of human milk. Ni-Q overcomes this variability issue by batch processing larger volumes of donor milk. This minimizes the variability a single donor can have on a batch’s nutrition levels, and our processing steps allow us to determine the macronutrient (fat, protein, carbohydrate) levels of each batch so we can guarantee HDM Plus offers 20 calories/oz and 1.1 grams of protein/100ml.**

• Knowledge: Unlike FCMB, Ni-Q quarantines its milk after processing and has the leading food-analyzing company validate the nutritional profile.  Ni-Q provides this nutritional information in a nutritional label, so parents know what they are feeding their babies…every time and guaranteed!