Having run a "lactation station" in a hospital where many employees as well
as mothers with babies in one or more units used the same pumps (but all
with their own kits), I can tell you that the only time we got concerned
about possible contamination was if milk from one mother inadvertently got
into the tubing of the pump.  Then I would change the ENTIRE TUBING SET-UP
that went inside the pump, clean the pump inside and out (the rep showed me
how; it was not difficult--I am "mechanically challenged") and we moved on.
I would regularly wipe down the outside of the pump after people used it
and splashed milk on the outside.  Every mother was expected to use her own
kit and to wash and keep it clean herself.  We had no problems--except when
workers (non-lactating) used the room to smoke in.  ARGGHHH!!!! and
UGHHH!!!!! and one had the temerity to contaminate the pump tubing with
ashes.....

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