On September 28, 2018, the Liveyon company started a product recall of their umbilical cord blood products produced by Genetech in San Diego because of contamination with E. coli. There is no reason to use a riskier allograft orthobiologic when there are more studied, cheaper, safer alternatives that come from our own bodies!
The FDA press release is here:
https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsEBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/Recalls/ucm622190.htm
