Section 2: Technical conditions of organisation and operation

The authorisation holder appoints a doctor responsible for the organisation and operation of the lactarium for the main site and its branches. The doctor will be assisted by a midwife, a health executive or a childcare nurse, who will be responsible for coordinating the collection activity and liaising with the health establishments where the mother’s milk collection centres are located, particularly for indoor and outdoor lactariums.

The working time of the lactarium staff may be shared with other activities carried out by the licence holder.

Lactariums carry out their activities of collecting, qualifying, processing, preserving, distributing and issuing breast milk on medical prescription, in compliance with the rules of good practice mentioned in the second paragraph of article L. 2323-1.

The rates for the sale and reimbursement of breast milk collected and processed in lactariums are set by order of the ministers responsible for health and social security.