The FDA shuts down a tissue broker
Hospital Safety Connection, February 8, 2006
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has told a tissue broker to cease its operations over concerns that the company didn't properly screen samples for diseases.
The company, Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, NJ, has complied with the order but intends to dispute the FDA's action in court, an attorney told The New York Times.
"Despite records maintaining otherwise, the firm had inadequately screened donors for risk factors for, or clinical evidence of, relevant communicable disease agents and diseases," the FDA said in a press release on February 3.
Some of these questionable samples may have ended up in hospitals through third-party sales, which caused medical centers to warn some patients.
We mentioned back in January that authorities in Brooklyn, NY, and Newark, NJ, were reportedly investigating Biomedical Tissue Services for selling body parts allegedly stolen from funeral homes.
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