Human Tissue Scandal
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Hundreds of Americans are facing a new problem that of potentially infected tissue used in transplant surgery.
Healthy people are getting sick when they are supposed to be receiving life saving tissue transplants. Instead of getting better, they are being implanted with contaminated tissue that was acquired illegally from corpses.
The FDA is investigating and has issued an alert to physicians, hospitals, and tissue processing plants, that tissue received from Biomedical Tissue Services LTD, in Fort Lee, New Jersey may not have been tested properly and may contain infections diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and Syphilis.
Common transplants (allograft) involve tissue, bone/bone marrow, tendons, organs, and even corneas.
Transplants can be taken from a deceased or live donor. Written approval from the family or donor approval is required. A medical history review, physical assessment, and disease screening test to meet FDA donor requirements is mandatory.
Tissue banks often distribute their goods to other companies before they finally reach a hospital, which is not required to do any further testing of the tissue, but trusts the tissue bank to have been a proper gatekeeper."
There is ongoing legislation within the senate for stricter legislation to regulate the tissue transplant industry. Congress is also seeking a full accounting of breakdown in the system for each knows occurrences.
Human Body Part Transplant Scandal