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ensure accuracy. Cord Blood: Establishing a National
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program Variation in this arena,
including training of the cord blood collection staff, may
account for the differences in the volume collected and the
rates of disqualification of units for contamination and other
reasons. Most cord blood banks store units as a red blood cell-
depleted product (also referred to as a mononuclear cell3
product) with the exceptions of ITxM Cord Blood services, the
Sibling Donor Cord Blood Program, and StemCyte International
Cord Blood Banks and Cord Blood Family Trust. The most popular
anticoagulant and cryoprotectant agents were citrate-phosphate-
dextrose (CPD) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), respectively. The
majority of banks also indicated that they store the units in
the vapor phase of liquid nitrogen. There are li