The Arizona Attorney General's Office filed a consumer fraud lawsuit against what she calls the dominant player in a multibillion dollar industry for the banking of umbilical cord blood.
CBR Systems Inc. is so far silent about the case.
The lawsuit says that for decades, CBR Systems sold parents on a one-time chance to protect their child from cancer and other disorders by preserving umbilical cord blood and tissue at birth.
The state alleges that the company misled consumers when saying cord blood samples were securely taken to its Tucson facility, and instead shipped them with no temperature controls.
The result, according to the lawsuit, is consumers have no way to know if their sample is still usable should their kid get sick.
CBR Systems did not reply to a request for comment.
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