Agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation found four preserved human fetus in a warehouse which belongs to the former seller of the bodies. This in an exclusive material, reports Reuters.
The embryos were discovered during a RAID in December 2013 at the warehouse of businessman Arthur Ratburn in Detroit, Michigan. The fruit, which was probably from 14 to 27 weeks were in the liquid, where they found the fabric of the human brain.
Ratburn now the case is in court, but he accused of selling its customers parts of the body affected by the disease. After the businessman pleaded not guilty, the judge appointed the next session on Jan.
As Ratburn purchased the fruit and that he intended to do with them still remains unknown. And the FBI, and the lawyers of the accused have not answered the queries of journalists.
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A member of the house of representatives Marsha Blackburn, recently head of the special Committee of the USA on the use of fetal tissues, said that the findings cast doubt on the activities of sellers of bodies across America.
Generally, businessmen take the bodies donated for science, dismember them and sell in parts, for use in medical and research purposes. Multi-million dollar industry was built mainly on the poor, who donate their body parts in exchange for free cremation remaining.
Buying and selling of body parts, with the exception of organs used for transplantation, it is lawful and practically is not regulated by us law. But it is trade of fetal tissues in the United States considers illegal.
In most States, including Michigan, the public health authorities are not obliged to regularly inspect objects sellers authorities. This leads to the fact that it is not known if the business human embryos.
Photos from the warehouse Ratburn became a shining example of gaps in the legislative framework, which regulates the industry. Blackburn called the current situation «lack of control over the implementation of laws».
