“ A Texas Tribune review of nine years’ worth of e-mails and internal documents on the Department of State Health Services’ newborn blood screening program reveals the transfer of hundreds of infant blood spots to an Armed Forces lab to build a national and, someday, international mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) registry. The records, released after the state agreed in December to destroy more than 5 million infant blood spots, also show an effort to limit the public’s knowledge of aspects of the newborn blood program, and to manage the debate around it. ”
DNA Deception | The Texas Tribune
So you’re telling me they turned over blood, without permission from parents, to the military, for unspecified, potentially unlimited, and multiple agency or private future testing and comparison?
Great.
