The History Of Bovine Colostrum
Early in the 20th century it was noted that antibody levels in the first milk produced after birth
(bovine colostrum) were much higher than were found in
the milk produced after 72 hours. It was already known that these antibodies contained certain
properties that enhanced protection. Prior to the development of sulphur drugs and
antibiotics,
was used for the natural antibiotic properties it contained.
A physician, Albert Sabin who is credited with developing the first
polio vaccine, was an advocate of colostrum bovine use and had in fact
originally isolated the first anti-polio antibodies from bovine colostrum.
About forty years later Campbell and Peterson, using an orthodox vaccination protection
theory, developed a program whereby cows where immunised with a mixture of attenuated
pathogens before the birth of their calf.
The bovine colostrum collected
from these animals was referred to as immune or hyperimmunised colostrum. Research
which was conducted using the hyperimmune milks showed it to be prophylactically and
therapeutically successful in preventing and treating pathogens capable of causing
infections in the intestinal tract, ranging from E.coli, infant rotavirus,
Cryptococcidiosis diarrhoea in AIDS and other immunodeficient patients, dental carie
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Colostrum drying plant
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In 1992 Kummer was the first to demonstrate that
bovine colostrum from non-immunised cows can prevent
gastrointestinal disease in infants.
In 1998 McConnell and her colleagues at Otago
University, New Zealand, in conjunction with The New Zealand Dairy Group
demonstrated that it was possible to produce a colostrum from pasture-fed,
non-immunised cows which showed a greater antibody volume and activity that that of
the hyperimmunised equivalent.
The New Zealand Dairy Industry pioneered the first
commercial colostrum collection system.
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Hundreds of dairy farmers with more than 40,000 cows invested in separated
stainless steel tanks and the companies developed the means by which to collect, pasteurise, dry,
and store colostrum in large quantities.
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