Herders utilise traditional practices of home slaughtering animals for household consumption, milking mares to produce a traditional fermented drink called 'airag' and milking female camels to consume milk during the summer and autumn.
Mothers may pump their own breast milk during the day, so overnight nurses can feed the babies.
The initiative, called the Breakfast Project, is meant to promote drinking milk during the first meal of the day.
"A female can offload 90% or more of her body burden of PCBs to her calf through the milk during the long lactation period, just at the time the new calf is very vulnerable," said Jepson.
Unlike cows and goats, camels can produce milk during the dry season and in times of drought – which is why they are considered to be "one half of God" by the Rendille community in north-east Kenya.
The government did not say whether the contaminated milk from Shanghai Panda had sickened anyone, but said only that regulators believed that they had confiscated dangerous milk during the investigation.
The government is introducing the banks at public hospitals, and hopes that a shift in attitudes and mindsets will follow: at present only 8% of South African women exclusively feed their babies breast milk during the first six months of their lives.
They also produce more milk during the wet than the dry season.
An analytical tool offering the possibility of analyzing milk during the daily milking routine would provide such information.
Yield of energy-corrected milk during the first 70 DIM tended to be greatest for cows fed the control diet.
Others described expressing milk during the workday, sometimes in the comfort of a designated space but for others, in washrooms or behind a curtain.
