I gathered these resources from the CDC, from LLLI, and from OSHA.
I hope they help.

Sincerely,
Andrea
--
Andrea Eastman, MA, IBCLC

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http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000039.htm

"However, occupational exposure to human breast milk has not been
implicated in the transmission of HIV nor HBV infection to health-care
workers. Moreover, the health-care worker will not have the same type of
intensive exposure to breast milk as the nursing neonate. Whereas
universal precautions do not apply to human breast milk, gloves may be
worn by health-care workers in situations where exposures to breast milk
might be frequent, for example, in breast milk banking."

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Day Care Breastmilk Storage Guidelines from LLLI
http://www.lalecheleague.org/Release/daycare.html

"...human milk is not (nor has it ever been) included in federal health
agencies listings of body fluids governed by universal precautions for
bloodborne pathogens which would mandate handling and feeding with
rubber gloves or storage in a separate refrigerator as a biohazardous
material. This continues to be the current policy of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA)."

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 From OSHA
Breast milk does not constitute occupational exposure as defined by
standard.
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=20952&p_text_version=FALSE

"Breast milk is not included in the standard's definition of "other
potentially infectious materials". Therefore contact with breast milk
does not constitute occupational exposure, as defined by the standard.
This determination was based on the Centers for Disease Control's
findings that human breast milk has not been implicated in the
transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or the hepatitis
B virus (HBV) to workers although it has been implicated in perinatal
transmission of HIV and the hepatitis surface antigen has been found in
the milk of mothers infected with HBV. For this reason, gloves should be
worn by health-care workers in situations where exposures to breast milk
might be frequent, for example, in milk banking."

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