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Article: Vic: Human milk bank to set up in Victoria
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
08-12-2004
Vic: Human milk bank to set up in Victoria
By Alex Wilson
MELBOURNE, Aug 12 AAP - Australia's first milk bank is to start offering breast milk
to new mothers in Victoria from the beginning of next year.
Melbourne-based lactation consultant Margaret Callaghan plans to open the private service
which will pasteurise milk donations and offer them to mothers who cannot produce enough
for their own babies.
The proposal has raised questions about how the new service would be regulated.
Ms Callaghan said the private company setting up the Victorian milk bank planned to
set up in NSW next and then to establish clinics nationwide.
She said new mothers ...
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