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Non-profit milk banks provide a safe and affordable source of pasteurized donor human milk to premature infants in the NICU setting. Pediatric outpatients with formula intolerance and other serious medical conditions may also benefit from donor milk.

Non-profit milk banks use Holder pasteurization to deactivate bacterial and viral contaminants while maintaining bioactive factors that help shape a healthy infant microbiome.

Watch this webinar by Summer Kelly MS, RN, IBCLC to gain a behind-the-scenes look at a nonprofit milk bank, where science, safety, and ethics converge to ensure equitable access and community engagement.