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A secret audit of a major fertility clinic revealed that almost all of its donor sperm being provided to patients was at high risk of potential mix-ups.
The Queensland Fertility Group (QFG), which is owned by Australia's largest IVF company, Virtus Health, conducted the internal investigation in 2023.
The results were shocking.
It found 99 per cent of local donor sperm frozen before 2020 was rated as "high risk" of potentially not being from the person on the label.
The details have been uncovered as part of an ABC Investigation into an IVF mix-up in which a Brisbane couple received the wrong sperm and were then silenced by Queensland Fertility Group.
Six years after the incident, in 2020, Virtus Health conducted an internal audit that exposed which of its internal and external sperm providers were failing to conduct crucial identity checks during donations.
Five donor sperm providers, including two popular US sperm banks, were classified as "high-risk" providers because there was no evidence of a process known as double-witnessing occurring at those labs.
Queensland Fertility Group was the only Australian...