A rare promotional video by Crucell circa 2008. The use of this cell line includes the plan to mainstream fetal cells in food. The corporation has since changed names and ownership. That's a ghost corporation for you...
PER.C6 originated from human embryonic retina cells from an 18 week old, aborted baby in 1985. About this cell line, Wong wrote, “In the FDA proceedings, Dr. Alex Van Der Eb admits that the fetus was ‘completely normal.’ He later gives testimony to the development of PER.C6 (human embryonic retinal cells), in which the evidence that it was obtained from a willfully induced abortion is undeniable. Again, it was a ‘healthy fetus.’ PER.C6 is used for similar purposes as HEK 293 in the field of gene therapy.”
Dr. Alex Van Der Eb told the FDA, “So what I would like to do is to describe to you how and why we have made two different cell lines, adenovirus transformed human embryo cell lines which are called 293 and PER.C6. Both cell lines were made in my lab, and also the cells, the starting material, was prepared by myself at the University of Leiden. The 293 cell was made by Frank Graham in 1973 from human embryonic kidney cells that were made from fetal tissue one year ago by myself one year before that, so that was… probably in 1972, whereas the PER.C6 cell was made by Ron Bout and Frits Fallaux in 1995 from an embryonic retina cultures that were made from fetal tissue by me ten years before that, in 1985,” he stated.
He added, “We had no donor information on 293 or what was available got lost, and this is available for PER.C6.”
Dr. Alex van der Eb described the circumstances of the abortion:
So I isolated retina from a fetus, from a healthy fetus as far as could be seen, of 18 weeks old. There was nothing special with a family history or the pregnancy [which] was completely normal up to the 18 weeks, and it turned out to be a socially indicated abortus’, abortus provocatus, and that was simply because the woman wanted to get rid of the fetus…
… The mother was completely normal…. there was nothing wrong with the mother. She had at least two children afterwards in the same hospital in Leiden, which were completely healthy. The father was not known, not to the hospital anymore; what was written down [was there was an] unknown father, and that was, in fact, the reason why the abortion was requested.
