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NEW YORK (AP) -- Calling it a danger to public heath, the Food and Drug Administration shut down a biomedical firm on Friday amid allegations the company covertly harvested human tissue for profit at funeral homes in the New York city area and elsewhere.

The FDA sanction against Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, N.J., was the latest development in a brewing scandal involving scores of funeral homes and hundreds of looted bodies, including that of "Masterpiece Theater" host Alistair Cooke.

Federal and local authorities have been investigating whether the firm's chief executive, Michael Mastromarino, and a business associate paid off funeral homes so they could take bone and skin from the dead without their families' knowledge.

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[DUNDEE]

and in other news.....

Leaping Crocodile Slams Into Car
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SYDNEY, Australia (Feb. 2) - A 6.5-foot saltwater crocodile leapt out of a roadside culvert and slammed into the side of a passing car, authorities said Thursday.

The crocodile died in the collision and was given to local Aborigines, who ate it, said Garry Lindner, crocodile management officer at the Kakadu National Park in northern Australia.

"It was probably startled and it just leaped in the wrong direction once it heard the vehicle coming," Lindner said. "The driver barely had time to respond and the (crocodile) become a road fatality."

Lindner said that at this time of year when northern Australia is drenched by monsoon rains it is common for crocodiles to move about looking for food and a place to bask.

The reptile was able to leap with "all four feet off the ground" because it was still young and agile, Lindner said.

Saltwater crocodiles can grow up to 23 feet in length.

The incident is the latest in a series of reports of drivers being confronted by crocodiles in Kakadu and has prompted calls for Northern Territory residents to watch for the reptiles when driving near waterways, particularly during the wet season.

[Phoenix]

How big a danger to public health can it be to harvest bone and skin from a body? You have to figure a number of people will touch the body before it ever gets to the bio-medical lab. The funeral home picks up the body. They are protected, for sure. The people in the funeral home who embalm the body wear protection. If they are giving bits of bone and tissue to the lab, the lab people are surely going to protect themselves. The lab will sterilize anything they get because they can't take the chance on contaminating their lab. Then, if the bone or tissue is used, the hospital itself will check it before they use it because they don't need a lawsuit.

I've had two friends who have been the recipients of donor bone for neck and back surgeries. They chose donor bone because the process of harvesting their own bone from their hips is incredibly expensive and it extends the recovery period by months. I have two other friends who chose their own bone for the surgeries and said never again.

What's the big deal. We're not talking about a whole leg here. Or the skin of your back. Sure, it's New-Jersey-Sneaky the way they got it, but I'm still of the mind- so what. My gripe would be who's making the money off this? Shut them down, and call it post-mortem donation. But a danger to public health? Nah...

[Jennifer]

I work for a biomedical technology firm and we process tissue from organ/tissue donors. The problems with this particular situation are this: the family may not have given consent for the tissue to be donated; second, there is a screening process that needs to be followed. Would you want the bone from a cancer patient implanted into your, or a family member's, body? There are specific serologies that have to be done for safety reasons. The recovery process is a sterile process, just like a surgical process, or we can't take the tissue.

I think, obviously, that organ and tissue donation is a much needed thing and stories like this make the whole process seem shady at best.

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