This might come as a surprise to California natives in their 20s and early 30s: The state owns your DNA.
California Biobank Stores Every Baby's DNA. Who Else Has Access?
But later she was shocked to find, her daughters' leftover blood was not thrown away."The state collects the cards and then uses them in a database," she said. The information is buried on page 12 of the brochure about the Newborn Screening Program that hospitals give parents of newborns before they go home.
The CDPH turned down a request for an interview and wouldn't explain why it doesn't ask permission to sell babies' blood spots. But it said parents can have them destroyed. And CDPH says the blood spots are de-identified and can't be tracked back to the child.
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