Briefing Materials

Disclaimer: Portions of these documents have been determined to be exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (the FOIA) (5 U.S.C. Sec. 552).

• Memo From Dr. Murphy, Director of the Office of Pediatric Therapeutics, to the Committee (PDF - 100KB)
• FDA Working Group Background Information on Banked Human Milk (PDF - 31KB)
• Human Milk Banking Association of North America Website
• Synopsis of HMBANA Guidelines (PDF - 98KB)
  Synopsis of the guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of a Donor Human Milk Bank, 15th edition, 2009
• Prolacta Bioscience Website
• New York Regulations Pertaining to Human Milk Banking (PDF - 2MB)
• Health and Safety Code for California Pertaining to Human Milk Banking (PDF - 896KB)
• Results of Serologic Screen for Potential Human Milk Donors (PDF - 58KB)
• Selected Background Information on Human Milk Banking (PDF - 706KB)
• Human Milk Banking Reference Abstracts (PDF - 41KB) Listing of selected published articles with a short synopsis of information pertaining to human milk banking
• Agency Acronyms (PDF - 122KB) Listing of commonly used acronyms which can be found in FDA presentations and background materials
• FDA Information on the Use of Donor Human Milk
• Health Canada's Posted Information About Concerns With the Use of Unprocessed Human Milk