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Donor Standards

Our donors are recruited from the school campuses of western Montana and eastern Washington. Most of our
donors are either currently involved with, or have finished their higher education at the time of their participation in
our donor program. All donors are between 18 and 35 years of age in order to minimize genetic abnormalities.
All donors are frozen in very limited quantities, in order to guarantee that the number of pregnancies created
from any one donor are limited. Although all donor histories are reviewed to provide you with donors that
should give you a great chance of conceiving a healthy and normal baby, there is of course no way to
guarantee such an outcome. As all donor family histories will present with their own unique positive and negative
attributes, we encourage all clients to review donor information thoroughly prior to purchase and use of
specimens.

Our donor screening meets or exceeds the standards set forth by the AATB, ASRM, and CFAS. (American
Association of Tissue Banks, American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society)

Donor Screening

Donor Screening includes the following:

  • Three generation family health history with no indication of major genetically linked disease
  • Donors must have a lifestyle that is low risk for contracting communicable diseases.
  • Complete physical exam, and approval by an independent physician
  • Donors are questioned and examined for evidence of HPV infection, but there is no currently approved testing for HPV in semen.
  • Urinalysis and Microscopic Exam
  • Semen Analysis with excellent count, motility, and normal strict morphology study
  • Drugs of Abuse Screening
  • Excellent post thaw sperm recovery


Serology (blood tests):

  • CBC, Chem 23 Panel, ABO and Rh
  • HIV I/II w/six month quarantine (EIA testing, with Western Blot use for confirmation)
  • Hepatitis BsAG w/six month quarantine
  • Hepatitis B Core Total w/six month quarantine
  • Hepatitis C w/six month quarantine
  • Herpes type II (genital) by type specific antigen
  • RPR (for syphillis) w/six month quarantine
  • HTLV I/II w/six month quarantine
  • CMV IgG,IgM ** All Donors are IgM Negative


Genetic Testing:

  • Cystic Fibrosis Mutation Analysis
  • Other genetic testing available at clients request and expense


Cultures and/or Aptima Gen Probe testing is completed for:

  • Neisseria Gonorrhoea
  • Chlamydia
  • Herpes Simplex


Microscopical Examination of each Donor Ejaculate for:

  • freeze-thaw recovery motile sperm count
  • Trichomonas
  • Yeast


**More Information on CMV