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The Milk Bank NG follows strict screening, processing, and dispensing guidelines established by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) to ensure the safety of pasteurized donor human milk.
These guidelines have been established with the advisement of the Centers for Disease Control, the Food and Drug Administration, and the blood and tissue industries.
Potential donors provide complete medical and lifestyle histories, and undergo blood tests similar to the screening process used at blood banks.
Donated milk is pasteurized to kill any bacteria or viruses. Before the pasteurized milk is dispensed, bacteriological testing is done by an independent lab to ensure its safety.
Pasteurised donor breast milk is available to all babies. However, if supply becomes limited, The Milk Bank supplies based on priority to premature and sick low infant weight babies. To receive milk, families must complete the Recipient Intake form. The forms can be completed online or downloaded and sent to the milk bank. Click the button below
The WHO, American Academy of Paediatrics, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and other national and global policy groups call for use of donor human milk as the feeding of choice, if mother’s own milk is insufficient, unavailable or contraindicated.”
“If a mother’s own milk is insufficient to meet the infant’s needs or otherwise unavailable, the first choice for supplementation, especially sick or premature infants, should be donor human milk from a qualified human milk bank.”.
“Donor human milk has been cited as reducing necrotising enterocolitis and other morbidities such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, late-onset sepsis and retinopathy of prematurity in small, sick and/or preterm infants, especially the very low-birth-weight and extremely low birth weight infants.” Click the button below to request now