Title

Best Practices to Limit Contamination of Donor Milk in a Milk Bank.

Authors

Elizabeth Froh, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PAFollow
Jill Vanderpool
Diane L Spatz, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PAFollow

Author ORCiD Identifier

Froh: 0000-0002-7367-9902

Spatz: 0000-0001-7316-6616

Publication Title

Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN / NAACOG

Document Type

Article

PubMed ID

29304316

Abstract

Human milk donated to a milk bank can become contaminated in a number of ways, but processes exist to eradicate pathogenic bacterial growth. Donor human milk may be cultured before or after pasteurization or both. The purpose of this article is to describe standard operations of the Mothers' Milk Bank of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, best practices to limit the bacterial contamination of donor human milk, and implications for future research.

Keywords

Bacterial Infections, Consumer Product Safety, Donor Selection, Food Contamination, Food Handling, Food Quality, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Newborn, Diseases, Milk Banks, Milk, Human, Nutritive Value, Philadelphia

DOI

10.1016/j.jogn.2017.12.002

Publication Date

7-1-2018

Citation

Froh, E., Vanderpool, J., & Spatz, D. (2018). Best Practices to Limit Contamination of Donor Milk in a Milk Bank.. Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN / NAACOG, 47 (4), 547-555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2017.12.002