SINGAPORE - Law firm Peter Low Chambers has said it is representing 157 parents who stored their children’s cord blood with beleaguered private cord blood bank Cordlife.
“In the first stage of legal work, PLC will render a written legal opinion, based on an agreed-upon scope distilled from the concerns and queries obtained, to advise these Cordlife parents on their rights and remedies,” the firm said. In November 2023, it was revealed that cryopreserved cord blood units – which must be stored at temperatures no higher than minus 150 deg C – in seven of Cordlife’s 22 storage tanks wereAround 7,500 cord blood units in two tanks and in a dry shipper – used to transport cord blood units at extremely low temperatures – have been deemed non-viable and unlikely to be suitable for stem cell transplants.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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