Harvested body parts recalled
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Recently the FDA closed down Donor Referral Services of Raleigh, N.C., run by Philip Guyett, citing the company used an unsanitary embalming room to carve up dozens of corpses to procure tissue. This resulted in a leading medical firm to quietly recall hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants in the nation. Routine operations such as back surgery and knee repairs use cadaver tissue. These tissues are used in more than a million transplants each year
Improperly processed and poorly tested tissue can lead to infections like hepatitis or AIDS or even death.
The FDS is not saying just how many of these potentially tainted body parts might have go to hospitals. However two companies have stated they know of at least 60 bodies being cut up and at least 300 body parts that have been recalled.
The FDA has worked with the firm that distributed the subject tissue to ensure that physicians are notified to inform patients and offer testing
As the result of this investigation, some companies began their own recall of tissue from 19 donor bodies provided by Guyett. However, these 19 bodies represent only a fraction of Guyett's business.
The recover of body parts took place in a Raleigh Funeral home, in the embalming room, a non-sterile facility and not built for tissue recovery. Guyett paid the funeral home $1,000 each for the 60 donors.
It appears this is not the first time Phillip Guyett has been involved in a tissue scandal. A Phillip Guyett with the same date of birth and other records plead no contest to a felony in the late 1990 and was fined and sentenced to perform six months community service and three years probation in April 2000.
This is the second scandal involving the tissue transplant industry in less than a year.
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