Bone Tissue

Biomedical Tissue Services sold these illegal body parts to several large companies including Medtronic Inc., Lifecell Corp., Regeneration Technologies, Inc., Tutogen Medical, Inc., SpinalGraft Technologies, LLC ,Lost Mountain Tissue Bank and Blood & Tissue Center of Central Texas. The FDA and most of the companies involved have not disclosed the number of patients that received the untested parts and bone tissue. However, Medtronic said it received 13,000 tainted pieces from Regeneration Technologies, of which 8,000 were actually implanted.

Any unused tissue has been voluntarily recalled by the processors and they have notified the transplant physicians, said a statement by the FDA. Physicians who transplanted bone tissue directly from BTS were also contacted, according to an attorney familiar with the issue.