Feds want body fluids of 'elderly white men'
Custody transfer plan notes under-representation in database
June 17, 2014

It appears that “elderly white men” are not doing their fair share of work to contribute to a national database of body fluids.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a program of the National Center for Health Statistics, revealed the problem in a recent online statement regarding plans to transfer the nation’s database to a private contractor.

“Older white men” are particularly under-represented in the compilation of statistics and details of the collection, which has been in development since the 1960s, officials said.

In fact, it explicitly explains that the federal government lacks sufficient data on white males over 80.

“One of the rarest groups sampled are elderly white men,” the organization explained on its website.

“Sometimes the interviewer goes to a house with the sampling direction: ‘Look for white men, 80 and older.’ If there’s not a white male 80 and older living there, no one is selected from that household,” NHANES said.

The government’s aim in collecting these voluntarily contributed biologic samples is to assess “the prevalence of chronic conditions in the population.”

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CDC anticipates “future use” of these surplus specimens, partly because additional or repeat experiments may be deemed necessary.

It is, therefore, reaching out to the private sector to find a long-term home for the biologic samples, which the selected contractor will inventory and monitor, while sometimes delivering to government-authorized researchers.

CDC will provide that company with 16 or more storage freezers of unknown dimensions to store the specimens, the project’s Statement of Work, or SOW says.

The work, however, will be performed at a nongovernmental facility, where the contractor also will provide retrieval and shipment services on an as-needed basis, the SOW say

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