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Cordlife not allowed to collect, test, process and store new cord blood
The Straits Times
|November 27, 2025
Beleaguered cord blood banking company Cordlife will not be allowed to collect, test, process and/ or store new cord blood with effect from Nov 26.
The Cordlife facility in Yishun. The company can now only maintain the storage of existing cord blood units (CBUs), and perform limited actions like facilitating their transfer to other cord blood banks and disposing of existing CBUs if clients instruct it to do so.
(PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO)
It will only be allowed to maintain the storage of existing cord blood units (CBUs), and perform limited actions like facilitating their transfer to other cord blood banks and disposing of existing CBUs if clients instruct it to do so.
The regulatory action from the Ministry of Health (MOH) comes after “significant lapses” were discovered during its midpoint audit of Cordlife in July.
MOH issued a notice to Cordlife on Sept 29 on the intention to suspend its licence. The company then made written representations to the ministry.
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