Ban on breast milk sales throws spotlight on growing international trade

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated March 29 2017 - 9:49pm, first published 9:41pm
A woman plays with a child in the Cambodian village of Khmoun, where dozens of women have signed surrogacy agreements to bear children for foreigners. However, some villagers have crtiticsed the practice. ??????I have had other people say nasty things about me,?????? one surrogate mother said. Picture: Craig Skehan Photo: Craig Skehan
A woman plays with a child in the Cambodian village of Khmoun, where dozens of women have signed surrogacy agreements to bear children for foreigners. However, some villagers have crtiticsed the practice. ??????I have had other people say nasty things about me,?????? one surrogate mother said. Picture: Craig Skehan Photo: Craig Skehan

Bangkok: Cambodian authorities have permanently banned the sale and export of human breast milk after suspending exports from a US company that has been collecting it from impoverished mothers for more than two years.

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