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Donor Standards

Our donors are recruited from the Northwest US. Most of our donors are either starting, 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 age related 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. We stop further sales to new clients at 10 reported successes. Although all donor histories are reviewed to provide you with donors that should give you a great chance of concieving 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.

All of our donors are commercial anonymous donors. We do not provide the identity of any of our donors to clients. All of our donors are asked if they are willing to meet with, or be contacted by, legal aged children that could be produced through their donations. If the donor expresses that he is willing to entertain future contact by legal aged children, then the child must approach the Cryobank to initiate the potential donor contact.

Our donor screening meets or exceeds the standards set forth by the FDA, AATB, ASRM. (Food and Drug Administration, American Association of Tissue Banks, American Society for Reproductive Medicine) Our lab has been through FDA inspection in 2007.

 
DONOR SCREENING & TESTING
Current Donor Medical 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.
  • Complete Urinalysis and Microscopic Exam
  • Semen Analysis with excellent count, motility, and normal strict morphology study
  • Drugs of Abuse Screening
  • Interviewed and low risk for West Nile virus, SARS, and CJD ("mad cow")
  • Excellent post thaw sperm recovery
Serology: all serologies are run through Oklahoma Blood Institute (OBI) or through Pathology Associates Medical Laboratory (PAML of Spokane) All serologic testing for FDA determined relevant disease is run on FDA approved test kits through FDA licensed facilities only.
  • ABO and Rh, CBC, Complete Metabolic Panel (blood typing, general health, Thallasemia)
  • HIV I/II w/six month quarantine (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol, with NAT)
  • Hepatitis BsAG, w/six month quarantine (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol)
  • Hepatitis B Core Total, w/six month quarantine (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol)
  • Hepatitis C, w/six month quarantine (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol, with NAT)
  • RPR (for syphillis), w/six month quarantine (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol)
  • HTLV I/II, w/six month quarantine (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol)
  • CMV IgG,IgM (FDA approved donor screening testing protocol) ** All Donors are IgM Negative
Genetic Testing:
  • Cystic Fibrosis Mutation Analysis (done on all donors)- Some donors have only basic CF test panels looking for the most common 25 CF causing mutations, but almost all of our donors have had the entire CFTR read. This testing provides a 99% detection rate for all races and is the most comprehensive Cystic Fibrosis screening available anywhere! Complete CFTR testing is performed by Ambry Genetics Laboratory
  • Thallasemias through CBC (complete blood count)
  • Tay Sachs, Sickle Cell, if indicated by donor history and/or blood panel (CBC)
Cultures and/or Aptima Gen Probe testing is completed for:
  • Neisseria Gonorrhoea (Aptima Gen Probe, run through PAML)
  • Chlamydia (Aptima Gen Probe, run through PAML)
  • HSV (type I and II through PAML)
  • Ureaplasma/Mycoplasma (only deemed relevant disease in Canada at this time) PAML
  • General Genital Culture (PAML)
Microscopic Examination of each Donor Ejaculate for:
  • Freeze-thaw recovery motile sperm count
  • WBC count of less than one million per cc on raw specimen
  • Trichomonas
  • Yeast
**More Information on CMV
Donor screening protocols can and do change over time (last update 1/06). Donor standards noted here reflect testing that is currently run on donors. Donors frozen in the past may have been subject to less, or even more testing, and or different protocols. All currently frozen donor specimens are subject to FDA regulated donor screening protocols. All of our donors have always been subject to six month quarantine for retesting of major viral diseases as noted.