(a) Donor records include:
(1) Initial donor screening form, documenting:
- (A) Medical history;
- (B) History of communicable diseases;
- (C) Lifestyle choices that are risks for donated breast milk, including alcohol and nicotine use; and
- (D) Use of medications and/or herbs;
- (2) Confirmation of negative serology tests within six (6) months of donation for HIV-1 and HIV-2, HTLV-1 and HTLV-2, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and syphilis, and any additional screening required by the individual bank;
- (3) Healthcare provider medical release form for both the donor, acknowledging that the provider or providers know of no risks to the potential donor should milk be collected for donation;
- (4) Birth date and gestational age of donor's infant;
- (5) Documentation of each donation (deposit); and
- (6) Signed donor consent form.
(b)
- (1) Administrative records are confidential.
- (2) Electronic records must be secure (password-protected or encrypted).
- (3) Paper records must be kept in a secure private area.
- (4) Breast milk banks inform donors and recipients of privacy policies and procedures.
- (c) Donor records are maintained for ten (10) years if an adult recipient, or until every recipient who has received breast milk from a specific batch reaches a minimum age of twenty-one (21), or longer, according to individual state or hospital rules or regulations.
(d) Breast milk bank administrative records include:
- (1) Identification of donors whose breast milk deposits comprise each pool, and the destination of each pool;
(2) Batch information, including:
- (A) Date of heat treatment;
- (B) Volume of breast milk treated;
- (C) Aliquots per batch; and
- (D) Heat-treatment times and temperatures;
- (3) Bacteriologic test results by batch after pooling and heat treatment;
- (4) Freezer, refrigerator, and pasteurizing temperatures;
- (5) Calibration records for all equipment, with calibration cycle and process according to manufacturers' instructions; and
- (6) Breast milk bank financial records as appropriate per institution, documenting processing fees per volume of breast milk dispensed, financial donations and in-kind gifts, and financial audits, if appropriate.
(e) Recipient records include:
(1)
- (A) Name of receiving entity and purchase-order number.
- (B) If ordered by a medical provider with prescription, name of provider and medical necessity;
- (2) Dispensing date, batch numbers, number of bottles, and ounces per bottle of all supplied breast milk;
- (3) Other pertinent information, such as diagnoses and medical outcome or outcomes of recipients, when available; and
- (4) Documentation of quarterly communication with family or prescriber of outpatient recipients.