SINGAPORE: Multiple clients whose cord blood units were damaged after being exposed to sub-optimal temperatures have accepted refunds, said Cordlife on Tuesday (May 7). Cordlife is a Singapore-listed firm and the longest-running private cord blood bank in the country. In November, it was discovered that seven of the company’s tanks had been exposed to temperatures above … Read more
In Singapore, experts estimated that the chance of families using privately banked cord blood as between 0.005 per cent and 0.04 per cent, compared to 2.2 per cent in a public bank, according to a 2016 TODAY article. Were parents oversold the potential for cord blood use during the free consultation they are often pushed … Read more
TEST RESULTS OF FIVE OTHER TANKS The remaining five tanks, which store about 14,000 cord blood units, have been assessed through investigations to be “at low risk of being adversely affected by temperature warming events”, said MOH. All 30 samples from across the five tanks passed the viability and potency tests conducted by an independent … Read more
