Human milk in community fridge?

[cyrus buelton]

Instead of threadjacking Neenja's pole dancing thread, figured a new topic should be started.


Yes, I find it repulsive that my lunch or beverage has to sit next to a container containing human bodily fluid.

How would you like some of my bodily fluid sitting next to your lunch? I am guessing you wouldn't.


The women at work already get a pumping room, why can't they just buy a 80$ fridge to put in there?



As for storing my lunch elsewhere..........this isn't an option as that is the only fridge on my side of the building.

[Grampa]

boobies

[cyrus buelton]

boobies

at least we got that one out of the way early

[NAKID]

Why don't you find out what OSHA's policy is?

[Drjones]

Breast milk in our community fridge wouldn't bother me. There are far worse things growing the next generation of penicillin vacines in ours right now.  In your situation with the designated area a separate fridge there makes a lot more sense.

[cyrus buelton]

Why don't you find out what OSHA's policy is?

Well, that's a pretty interesting topic.

OSHA does not constitute breast milk as an occupational hazard.

The reasoning for that, is most likely, very politically motivated by breast milk feeding advocates.

But when one researches breast milk, results show differently

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/29/us/study-shows-passing-aids-in-breast-milk-is-easier-than-thought.html

The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which is a reliable and accurate source. The study basically was on third world countries and HIV being transmitted to the infant via breast milk.

I realize this study was done in Third World Countries, but the fact of the transferring of HIV is the same regardless of where you live.

[ducatiz]

my wife pumps and puts it in the office fridge

but in a cooler bag with the bag not sealed so the cold air gets in.

she asked if it bothered anyone, and no one said that was a problem.

i might be skeeved if it was just sitting there in a bag or bottle, but putting it in a lunch bag or cooler bag like she does would be fine for me.

[gojira]

+1 on the separate fridge. Small fridges are cheap. Will solve all the problems.

But, in all fairness, you can never know what has been brought into a fridge at all times it's been available as a community fridge.

[cyrus buelton]

my wife pumps and puts it in the office fridge

but in a cooler bag with the bag not sealed so the cold air gets in.

she asked if it bothered anyone, and no one said that was a problem.

i might be skeeved if it was just sitting there in a bag or bottle, but putting it in a lunch bag or cooler bag like she does would be fine for me.

See, I would have no problem with that.

One of the ladies here puts it in a standard rubbermaid style 2-quart bottle. Sometimes it is a brown bag, others in a plastic grocery sack.

[metallimonster]

If it was chocolate or strawberry flavored I don't see the problem with it!

[KnightofNi]

If it was chocolate or strawberry flavored I don't see the problem with it!

i just had a hilarious vision of him walking in with strawberry syrup and laughing as he walked away.

[acalles]

i just had a hilarious vision of him walking in with strawberry syrup and laughing as he walked away.

I would note the type of containers used.

Buy one.

Buy some milk, and a bag of oreos.

fill container and walk by dipping the oreos in the milk. making sure they see you. look at them and say "hey, thats not half bad!"

but the syrup is pretty funny too.

Otherwise. yeah, gross. they should pitch in and buy themselfs a mini fridge. they really aren't that much... shit I have one in my room for beer!

[causeofkaos]

fill container and walk by dipping the oreos in the milk. making sure they see you. look at them and say "hey, thats not half bad!"

WoW that's great...  this is the one i vote for 

[NAKID]

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=20952

[Magnus]

oh geez...   get a grip sally