I always recommend taking a plastic baggie and placing it upside down 
over the flange + bottle assembly in the fridge, as a cover.  It may 
not be a perfect solution but it seems to me that it should help a 
lot to protect the flanges from drying out and from being 
contaminated by other things in the refrigerator.

Margaret
Longmont, CO

>
>1)      The parts are not sitting in breastmilk staying wet - they are
>drying out in the fridge therefore leaving dried milk on the parts that will
>be there at the next pumping.  Even if they are in a container - the milk is
>still drying out on all of the parts.
>
>2)      Unless the parts are put into their own ziplock bag or container
>with a lid they are also being exposed to who knows what other germs are in
>that fridge.  That doesn't sound sanitary to me at all - or safe.

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