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Dutch hospitals to drop U.S. body brokers
From Reuters [reuters.com]:
Two major Dutch hospitals say they will stop importing human body parts from American firms, which they have been doing without any regulation for a decade.
...one broker under scrutiny by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation - Portland, Oregon-based MedCure - has used a Dutch hub to distribute tens of thousands of kilograms of human body parts across Europe since 2012. U.S. authorities suspect MedCure sold body parts tainted with disease to American and foreign customers...
One frozen head from Science Care that passed through Dutch airport customs belonged to a 53-year-old who died in April 2017 after treatment to remove a brain tumor. Although the declared value of the head on the customs form was $25, the going rate for a human head in the U.S. market is currently around $500
Even though the hospitals say they plan to stop using the U.S. suppliers, the business of sending body parts through the Netherlands continues.
