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As I understand it, they need to breath just due to the moisture that comes out of our bodies while we're sleeping and soaks into the foam.  In our self build campervan, we're putting holes in the tops of the bed boxes so that the foam can breath downwards, and then a few vents in the bottom too.  This should help preserve the foam and the wood of the bed boxes themselves.  And hopefully we'll never have to experience these horrid smells!  Good luck with the bleach though.

If you lie matresses on top of a non-porous surface they get a nasty black mould.

    hiya  i put a moisture mate in our f/c .it takes the moisture out of the air

             and leaves it smelling claen and fresh .I also put a air fresher on the

             beds when packed up .you can get moisture mates from caravan shops

               also halfords.           derek

I noticed the same " spilt milk / ill smell" 2 years ago when looking for our fc. Asked the salesman about it and he said Pennine had used a different glue in the making of the bed boards for 2001 Fiesta. The smell wont go,  because this summer we had another look at the 2001 model and the smell was still apparent I would change the boards and be done with it