Fetal tissue supplier billed $765 procurement fee per organ, warn paperwork could imply illegal sales: records

FIRST ON FOX: Newly obtained public records show Cercle Allocation Services billed a UCLA research operation a $765 procurement-service fee tied to each individual liver and thymus specimen, while warning in internal correspondence that certain billing language could improperly imply the tissue itself was being sold.

The records, obtained from UCLA through a California Public Records Act request made on behalf of Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden, include purchase orders and correspondence between the university and Cercle Allocation Services.

An internal UCLA order form identifies the purchasing operation as part of the David Geffen School of Medicine’s Division of...