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Infected Body Parts For Sale (And Transplant)
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Are you wondering why there have been reports lately of infected body parts from cadavers being transplanted into patients? This Associated Press story may provide the answer.
Tissue demand rises while inspections fall
A piece of fruit coming into the United States is more likely to get government attention than a ligament or heart valve taken from a cadaver and destined for transplant.Although demand for donor tissue is booming, government inspections have fallen. In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration inspected 1 in 3 registered tissue companies; now it is 1 in 8. Over the same period, the tissue enforcement staff has shrunk from 252 to 227.
Meanwhile, the list of companies or those handling tissue has quintupled in that time frame from 406 to 2,030.
"Anytime you've got a growing industry with high profits to be made and the cops are not on the beat and they know it, it opens the door to mischief," said William Hubbard, an FDA associate commissioner from 1991-2005.
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