Summary
In investigation into the sale and distribution of cadavers and parts of cadavers at UCLA has recommended that bodies and body parts be implanted with identification chips. These radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips will allow investigators to determine where the bodies and their parts came from. Since the trade of human cadavers and cadaver parts is illegal, investigators are keen to prevent this sort of commercial venture.
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- An investigation into illegal sale and distribution of cadavers and body parts at the University of California, Los Angeles, has lead to recommendations that include implanting cadavers and individual body parts with RFID tags.
- Last year, UCLA suspended its willed-body program.
- The program director was arrested after an investigation of apparently stolen body parts revealed serious problems with security in the program.
- George Deukmejian, who led an investigative task force, told University of California regents Wednesday that the probe revealed a "clear lack of standards" in accounting for specimens, keeping records and oversight.
- Among the recommendations, which included better security cameras and improved record-keeping, was the idea that cadavers and even individual body parts should be identified with bar codes or with implanted radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags.
- The law of supply and demand has induced some people involved in legitimate medical research on bodies willed to science to seek illegitimate profit.
- A 1999 scandal at UC Irvine began when an audit showed that the director of its willed-body program had sold spines to a Phoenix hospital for $5,000 each.
- The demand for body parts for use by biomedical firms, pharmaceutical companies, surgeons training in new techniques and educational institutions without their own programs --- has risen sharply in the past few years.
- The sale of human body parts is illegal, but the law allows suppliers to charge "reasonable" fees to recover costs.
- Larry Niven coined the term organlegging to describe practice of trafficking in human organs in his 1967 novel The Jigsaw Man.
- Read more about implanting live people with RFID tags for bill payment; also the FDA has approved the VeriChip tag for use in hospital patients.
- See UCLA weighs cadaver safeguards and Report finds lax oversite in UC cadaver program for more on this story.
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