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Bone and Tissue Recall Issued
WBNS 10 TV ^ | December 13, 2005

Posted on 12/13/2005 5:57:04 PM PST by flutters

A medical recall is hitting home today, and the consequences have the potential to be deadly.

A nationwide recall has been issued regarding bone and tissue products that have been used in transplantation. Those products have found their way into patients here in Central Ohio.

Ohio-Health hospitals, which include Riverside Hospital here in Columbus, have been notified by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Apparently products from a New Jersey company called Biomedical Tissue Services is accused of not following proper protocol when acquiring bone and tissue to distribute to hospitals for surgery.

The bone and tissue products, which are used for anything from bone fillers to skin grafts, have the potential of carrying infectious disease. Apparently the donors weren't screened properly but the company has assured the F-D-A that the products completed a strenuous cleaning process before they were distributed.

Ohio Health has identified all the recipients in Ohio of these products. They say there is less than 150 people affected. And they say the risk of these products being contaminated is less than one-in-one-million. An Ohio Health spokesperson tells us all of the patients who received surgery with these products have been notified and are being asked to undergo infectious disease screenings.

Ohio Health has informed us that they have also checked their inventory to make sure there are no remaining suspect bone and tissue products.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: gimmebackmybone; hatewhenthathappens

1 posted on 12/13/2005 5:57:05 PM PST by flutters
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To: flutters

My first thought was, Wow, cool, God posted on FR - bone and tissue recall...


2 posted on 12/13/2005 6:02:26 PM PST by michaelbfree
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To: flutters
Atleast they know who received the products. Small consolation. Hopefully, everyone who received the material will be fine.
3 posted on 12/13/2005 6:02:36 PM PST by bigfootbob
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To: flutters

And they say that there is no buying and selling of human parts.


4 posted on 12/13/2005 6:04:02 PM PST by org.whodat
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To: flutters
Here's one of the customer service agents that's handling the calls:


5 posted on 12/13/2005 6:06:02 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Republican Death Machinist - Certified by ASE)
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To: michaelbfree

lol What are these poor people to do...give it back?


6 posted on 12/13/2005 6:06:38 PM PST by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: bigfootbob; eyespysomething
Hopefully, everyone who received the material will be fine

Yeah! I'll pray for these folks. It's one thing to have a seatbelt recall, or a recall on a kid's toy ... but stuff they put inside you during surgery ... YIKES!

7 posted on 12/13/2005 6:07:58 PM PST by SittinYonder (That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
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To: flutters
Old news.

Oct 26 article

Excerpt:

The New York Daily News reported earlier this month that the district attorney's office in Brooklyn, N.Y., is investigating the company, Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, N.J., on allegations the firm illegally bought body parts from funeral homes to sell to tissue processors. An FDA spokeswoman would not comment on those allegations.

8 posted on 12/13/2005 6:09:15 PM PST by Bob
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To: bigfootbob

I think they have identified those in my local area but not everyone nationwide.


9 posted on 12/13/2005 6:10:54 PM PST by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: flutters

isn't it kind of too late?? I mean infectious disease would probably already be workin' its magic after first contact with the patient!


10 posted on 12/13/2005 6:13:17 PM PST by annelizly
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To: Bob

Thanks. It wasn't posted on FR so it wasn't important until now. :-)


11 posted on 12/13/2005 6:14:12 PM PST by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: flutters
Thanks. It wasn't posted on FR so it wasn't important until now. :-)

Good point. :=)

I probably never would have seen the article except that I owned a little stock in one of the companies listed. Ouch!

12 posted on 12/13/2005 6:19:17 PM PST by Bob
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To: flutters

Thought this was another Tookie story.


13 posted on 12/13/2005 6:23:02 PM PST by ItsForTheChildren
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To: All
This story just gets more disgusting...

Bones Stolen From Corpses
Funeral Homes Investigated

POSTED: 12:09 pm EST December 14, 2005
UPDATED: 1:24 pm EST December 14, 2005

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Authorities are investigating several New York-area funeral homes in connection with the theft of body parts from corpses.

Police believe tendons, ligaments and bones were stolen and then sold as surgical replacements.

About 150 patients at Ohio Health Hospitals in Columbus received bone and tissue that may have been stolen from the funeral homes.

A New York man said his father's body parts were taken after he died of cancer.

"This is absolutely the most hideous thing I've ever heard," said Vito Bruno. "Even the detectives ... seasoned policemen said they've never heard of anything quite so unbelievable and horrible."

The Food and Drug Administration is assuring patients who received the body parts that the risk of disease transmission is very low because the bone and tissue products were sterilized before being used.

But Ohio Health officials urge patients who received the bone and tissue products to undergo infectious disease screening as a precaution.

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/5534612/detail.html
14 posted on 12/14/2005 12:35:35 PM PST by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

looks are so deceiving


15 posted on 12/14/2005 12:39:44 PM PST by united1000
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