>I belive I recently saw recommendations for precautions while handeling
human milk but can remeber were.

There was a question about this recently and I quote from The Breastfeeding
Answer Book, by Mohrbacher and Stock:

>From the new (1997) LLLI Breastfeeding Answer Book, p. 215:

"Both the US Centers for Disease control (1988) and the Occupational
Safety and health Administration (OSHA) agree that human milk is not
among the body fluids that require rubber gloves for handling and feeding
or require storage in a separate refrigerator as a biohazardous material.
 Although concerns have been raised in some areas about the need to use
universal precautions for bloodborne pathogens with human milk, as of
this writing US federal health agencies do not deem this necessary or
beneficial."

Unfortunately many decision-makers are not up-to-date on this issue.

Patricia Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee

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