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Table 1 Costs for collection and management of a liter of donor human milk at our human milk bank

From: How much does a liter of donor human milk cost? Cost analysis of operating a human milk bank in Italy

 

Direct costs (€)

Indirect costs (€)

Total costs (euro per liter)

 

Staff

Medical consumables

Laboratory tests

Lactarium

Transport

Total

Other consumables

Lactarium

General costs

Rooms

Staff

Total

771 l collected in 2019

80.25

1.43

1.12

54.63

24.57

162.0

0.68

19.81

25.13

5.76

17.75

69.0

231.0

904 l of milk (maximum capacity of our bank in 2019)

68.48

1.68

0.96

54.63

20.97

147.0

0.58

19.81

21.45

4.92

15.15

62.0

209.0