26:2A-17 Definitions relative to human milk banks.
1. For the purposes of this act:
"Collection" means the obtaining of donated human breast milk.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health.
"Department" means the Department of Health.
"Distribution" means the removal of donated human breast milk from a human milk bank to any other location for processing or storage or for the purpose of providing breast milk to a hospital or selling breast milk to a parent.
"Human milk bank" means an organized service that provides for the selection of a donor of human breast milk, the collection, processing, storage, and marketing of donated human breast milk, and the distribution of donated human breast milk to a hospital for use by low birth weight babies or new mothers with delayed lactation, or directly to a parent, with a physician's prescription order, who is unable to nurse, or is in need of additional breast milk to feed, the parent's child.
"Marketing" means the use of suitable media to advertise the availability of, promote the appropriate use of, and provide information on how to safely procure, donated human breast milk. "Person" means a person, partnership, association, agency, organization, or other similar entity.
"Processing" means the technical stages required to prepare and identify donated human breast milk as to its suitability.
"Storage" means the holding of donated human breast milk in connection with collection or processing prior to its distribution.
L.2017, c.247, s.1.
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