Belarus president instructs to start making human lactoferrin out of goat milk by year end

It is necessary to start processing goat milk by the end of 2014 in order to make human lactoferrin. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko gave the relevant instructions as he visited the agricultural breeding enterprise ZhodinoAgroPlemElita on 12 September, BelTA has learned.

Alexander Lukashenko was made familiar with the breeding of transgenic goats and the use of their milk to produce human lactoferrin for medical purposes. A herd of animals that produce human lactoferrin has been created thanks to the implementation of two programs of the Union State of Belarus and Russia in Belarus. For the first time Belarus has a new substance that can advance the effort to create highly effective and safe solutions to prevent human diseases. In particular, a technology to make medications and food that contain human lactoferrin has been created, test batches of merchandise have been made.

The President visited the biotechnology center and its pilot manufacturing facility and an experimental goat farm. At present the farm has 40-50 milking goats.

The head of state was informed that so far the equipment to distill lactoferrin out of milk has not been delivered. Alexander Lukashenko gave instructions to install the necessary equipment by 1 January 2015 in order to process all the milk the farm produces.