Those sites have thousands of ads from people selling breast milk, often new mothers who make more than their baby needs. The milk typically sells for $1 or $2 per ounce.
For the new study, they responded to 495 ads placed on two of those sites and ended up purchasing and analyzing 101 batches of milk.
Seventy-four percent of the samples either had disease-causing bacteria like E. coli or harmful levels of bacteria such as Streptococci.
By Genevra Pittman, Reuters
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