At the end of each month, establishments must send the doctor at the Regional Health Agency designated by the Director General of the Agency the declarations provided for in Article L. 2212-10. The model for the declaration is set by order of the Minister for Health.
Lactariums operate in two ways: 1° Lactariums for indoor and outdoor use; 2° Lactariums for indoor use. Lactariums participate in the promotion of breastfeeding and the donation of breast milk. The donation of milk may not give rise to any direct or indirect remuneration.
The role of the indoor and outdoor lactariums is to: 1° Collect breast milk; 2° Prepare, qualify and process breast milk; 3° Store breast milk; 4° Distribute and dispense breast milk on medical prescription. These tasks are carried out through anonymous and personalised milk donations. Personalised donations are defined as donations of milk from a mother to her own child. Anonymous donation is defined as the donation of milk by…
Lactariums for indoor and outdoor use may have either a single site providing all the activities mentioned in article D. 2323-2, or a main site and one or more branches. The main site is responsible for preparing, qualifying, processing, storing, distributing and issuing breast milk. The branches collect anonymous milk and any personalised milk. They also store the milk before it is sent to the main site of the lactarium….
The internal use lactarium is responsible for: 1° Collecting breast milk collected by mothers at home or at the lactarium site; 2° Preparing, qualifying and processing breast milk; 3° Preserving breast milk; 4° Delivering breast milk on medical prescription. These tasks are carried out solely on the basis of personalised milk donations for the benefit of newborns hospitalised in a health establishment where the lactarium is located. Exceptionally, in the…
The in-house lactarium is located in a healthcare establishment authorised to provide neonatal intensive care or neonatology intensive care as provided for in articles R. 6123-42 and R. 6123-44.
The lactarium is authorised for a period of five years by the director general of the regional health agency for the region in which the lactarium is located, after obtaining the opinion of the director general of the Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé. The authorisation is notified within a maximum of two months from the date of receipt of the application. The authorisation is…
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.
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