Utah’s first breast milk pasteurization lab is open, easing donations to the state’s fragile infants

(Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune) A lab worker demonstrates the process used in the new human milk pasteurization facility now open in South Salt Lake. The Mountain West Mothers' Milk Bank, Utah's first fully operational milk bank, sorts, thaws, treats and refreezes donated breast milk for medically fragile infants. The facility is located in South Salt Lake at 2995 S. West Temple.

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