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Human Milk Sharing, Selling and Donation: Legal and Ethical Angles
Learning Areas:
Ethics, professional and legal requirementsPublic health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Learning Objectives:
Explain the different rationales for regulating human milk as a tissue, fluid, or food.
Define at least two health risks associated with sales or donation of human milk.
Identify three practice-guiding documents for healthcare workers to use when consulting families about the use of shared/donated human milk.
Keyword(s): Breastfeeding, Ethics
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a lawyer (since 1983) and practicing IBCLC (since 1997) with expertise in criminal and administrative law, professional ethics, and conflicts-of-interest. I have written a text book, and chapters in other texts, about legal and ethical issues for the IBCLC. I am a board-level leader in my international professional association, a national breastfeeding promotion and policy organization, and a continental non-profit donor human milk banking assocation.
Any relevant financial relationships? Yes
Name of Organization | Clinical/Research Area | Type of relationship |
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Jones & Bartlett Publishers | breastfeeding ethics/law | royalties on book sales in this topic area |
United States Breastfeeding Committee | breastfeeding advocacy | Advisory Committee/Board |
Human Milk Banking Assn of North America | non-profit human milk banking | Advisory Committee/Board |
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.