Milk banks all across the country are hard at work getting donated breast milk out into the community as the formula shortage continues.
Milk banks all across the country are hard at work getting donated breast milk out into the community.
“Donor human milk banks have never been intended as a substitute for formula. Really, the formula is a substitute for human milk. So this is a new situation for us,” she said. “Increased staffing where possible,” Lindsay Groff, executive director of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, said. “This demand has caused everyone to step up to the plate.”“Some milk banks, for instance, if they were processing milk three to four days a week, now they’re doing all five. Or they're adding extra shifts, they’re adding more staff, more volunteers, more people to answer the phones, more people to field emails,” she explained.