Activists: Destroy blood samples: State wants infants' blood kept for study, but two judges say no.

From: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) | Date: July 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Jeremy Olson

Jul. 13--Emboldened by two favorable judicial rulings, a Twin Cities privacy advocate is demanding that the Minnesota Department of Health destroy thousands of newborns' blood samples that it kept indefinitely without explicit permission from parents.

The demand by the Citizens' Council on Health Care follows a July 3 ruling in which Minnesota's chief administrative law judge, Raymond Krause, said the Health Department lacked legal authori...

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