title: Human milk banking in the volunteer sector: policy development and actuality in 1970s Australia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to describe the development of rigorous milk banking policies in the voluntary sector in Australia, 1975-1979, by the non-government organisation, the Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia (now the Australian Breastfeeding Association), and the eventual abandonment of milk banking by the organisation.
  
  
  METHODS
  historical article.
  
  
  METHODS
  Australia in the years 1975-1979.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  during the period in which the policy development described here took place, conducting a milk bank to the rigorous standards set by the organisation required too heavy an investment of hours by unpaid volunteer coordinators to be sustainable.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  in establishing and continuing a successful milk bank, models which depend less on volunteer hours may be more sustainable.
authors.affiliation: School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia. v.thorley@uq.edu.au
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Thorley
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D017784:Milk Banks / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D008895:Milk, Human; D009938:Organizations / Q000266:history; D011050:Policy Making; D014838:Volunteers