Are sick Kiwis safe from tainted foreign body parts?

Products from a German company at the centre of allegations of unethically harvested body parts are being brought to New Zealand. How can the public be assured these products are safe and ethical?

Caleb Allison
Mon, 20 Aug 2012

Human tissue products from a company at the centre of a global investigation into unethically harvested body parts are being imported to New Zealand.

The company is Florida-based RTI Biologics, which turned over $US169 million last year as part of a burgeoning multi-billion dollar

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