Stolen Body Parts Reach the UK

A number of British patients may have received bone grafts from contaminated body parts stolen in the US according to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. MHPRA identified 77 pieces of bone that were imported into the UK last year from the New Jersey-based Biomedical Tissue Services.

in 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered a recall of the potentially tainted products and said many patients could have been exposed to HIV and other diseases.