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Hundreds of body parts from N.C. company recalled PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Saturday, 26 August 2006
WASHINGTON A leading medical firm has quietly recalled hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants around the nation that were supplied by a Raleigh body parts broker.

Broker Philip Guyett is believed to have a tainted history that may include pocketing the money he got for selling a cadaver donated to the California school where he worked.

A Raleigh funeral home director said today Guyett carve up dozens of corpses to procure tissue in the undertaker's unsterile embalming room.

The U-S Food and Drug Administration shut down Guyett and his Donor Referral Services on Friday.

The F-D-A refuses to say how many people may have received potentially risky tissue.
It's the second scandal in less than a year in the booming tissue transplant industry.

Tissue taken from dead human bodies is used in more than a (M) million transplants each year in such routine operations as back surgery and knee repairs.

Donated tissue is only lightly regulated by health officials.

http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=5313825&nav=2KPp
 
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