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Tissue mills

Written by DeadGirl
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Sep. 06, 2006 Just six months after Food and Drug Administration officials shut down what they described as a human-tissue mill in New Jersey, inspectors moved into a Raleigh, N.C., funeral home on Aug. 18 to close down another operation run by a body parts broker. In both cases, the operation was shut down only after body parts harvested from the broker’s operation made it to hospitals and into patients – including, in the case of the New Jersey mill, Fort Wayne residents. FDA officials won’t say how many pieces from the North Carolina funeral home made it to hospitals or to which hospitals. The replay raises the same question that arose last winter: When is the FDA going to get serious about regulating the harvesting of tissue and bone samples from human cadaver donors? Bone and tissue grafts are used in more than 1.3 million procedures each year, including knee repair, spinal surgeries and other medical procedures. Before they are implanted in patients, tissues are carefully processed – sterilized, tested and then quarantined – by biomedical companies that are heavily regulated by the FDA. But no amount of processing can guarantee the absolute safety of tissue and bone that may have come from donors who would have been disqualified because of their age or because they had diseases, including cancer. Physicians who use donated tissue and bone fear that patients who could benefit from donor implants will forgo surgery out of an exaggerated fear of harm from an unregulated implant. Donor tissue organizations fear that potential donors will be horrified by revelations of bodies being cut up in non-sterile embalming rooms and refuse to donate, leading to critical shortages of tissue. Even though the actual risk is minuscule, these fears aren’t unfounded. The FDA announced last week that it had formed a task force to study its regulation of the industry, including the effectiveness of its new rules, which are less specific and strict than those issued by the American Association of Tissue Banks. Membership in the association is voluntary. A second tissue scandal in six months should make it clear to everyone involved that the FDA must move more quickly to tighten up its regulation of the supply end of the tissue industry. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/15450583.htm

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries