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North Carolina Tissue Recalled by FDA
The Food and Drug Administration on August 18, 2006, recalled human tissue meant for transplant throughout the United States from a North Carolina body parts broker that may have a jaded past.
Donor Referral Services of Raleigh, N.C., was shut down by the FDA due to the use of an unsterile embalming room to harvest the tissue.
The FDA stated the company had "serious deficiencies" in its processing, donor screening and record-keeping. Philip Guyett, who ran the company, was accused by the federal government of altering records in an attempt to avoid problems such as cancer or drug use by the deceased donor.
The FDA refuses to comment on how many potentially tainted body parts were sent to hospitals for transplant. However, news reports say two companies doing business with Guyett are aware of at least 60 bodies cut up and at least 300 body parts that were recalled.
A government spokeswoman said individual hospitals and doctors will be notified of the possibly infected tissue.
All tissue must be harvested and processed in a sterile environment to avoid spreading infection to recipients. Guyett allegedly took the tissue from a funeral home embalming room that is not sterile.
An Associated Press report stated:
A Philip Guyett with the same date of birth and other records that match the body broker in Raleigh pleaded no contest to a felony, embezzlement stemming from the willed body program he directed at an osteopathic college in Pomona, Calif., in the late 1990s, said Jane Robison, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.
In return, two other felony charges were dropped, she said. Guyett had been accused of selling a cadaver to another school and keeping the $1,100 payment. At that time, police raided a warehouse he used and found three freezers containing human heads and hearts.
He was fined and sentenced in April 2000, ordered to perform six months of community service and was given three years' probation, Robison said.
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