Breast milk is not commercially available in Australia, it could be soon.
Indian company NeoLacta Lifesciences was last year granted permission to start importing breast milk to Australia.
Dr Ben Hartmann, from PREM bank at Perth's King Edward Memorial Hospital, said pasteurised breast milk was being sold overseas for at least $300 a litre.
"It is quite an expensive product and overseas commercial services are providing milk at a higher cost than that," he said.
At the five breast milk banks operating in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, breast milk is donated by lactating mothers with excess supply for use in neonatal intensive care units for sick or premature babies.
NeoLacta is one of only three companies in the world involved in processing human breast milk.
The company website states the promoters of NeoLacta ran a successful dairy business in Australia and it is offering bottles of "ready-to-feed human milk" made in a "world-class, pharmaceutical-grade facility".
