At 04:35 PM 12/4/96 -0500, A. Kim Sweet wrote:
> We are loosing our source for volu-feeders and caps. These are what we
have >been giving our Mothers to collect and store their breast milk in. We
follow the >Human Milk Banking recommendations for storage and handling of
HM, so we are >reluctant to use plastic bags. Does anyone have any
suggestions? Please HELP!!!

Is it Kim?  Anyway, I recently was informed that volu-feeders as packaged
and supplied by the formula company "A" are not sterile.  They are
individually packaged but notice the packaging does NOT say sterile.  I
believe the same is true of the gradufeeds supplied by formula company "B".
The NAMBA recommendations call for sterile bottles and lids.

For those who are not familiar with these products, they are small 60 and 80
ml hard plastic bottles supplied to hospitals, I believe "free", by American
formula companies.  They come packaged individually in clear plastic with a
paper cover.
They do not come with lids that I know of.

Kim, what did you do for lids?  We batch groups of 10 lids (again supplied
from formula company "B"and sterilize them in-house ourselves.  I'm not
pleased with this system and am also looking for another solution.

-- Carla (just north of Washington, DC)