Fetal tissue supplier billed $765 procurement fee per organ, warns records could imply illegal sales: records
Records obtained by David Daleiden’s Center for Medical Progress show UCLA purchase orders tied $765 procurement service fees to individual liver and thymus specimens
TL;DR
- Cercle Allocation Services billed a UCLA research operation a $765 procurement service fee per liver and thymus specimen.
- Internal correspondence from Cercle expressed concern that billing language could imply the tissue itself was being sold, which is illegal.
- Cercle stated the payments were for procurement services, not for the tissue, and requested purchase orders be rephrased to reflect this.
- Federal law prohibits the transfer of human fetal tissue for 'valuable consideration' but allows reasonable payments for associated costs.
- The records do not establish that Cercle or UCLA violated federal law, as they have not been accused or charged with illegal conduct.
- David Daleiden's Center for Medical Progress obtained the records through a California Public Records Act request.