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In Legal Gray Zone, Europeans Harvest Body Parts for US

Ukrainian company accused of gutting bodies illegally

By Drew Nelles,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 30, 2009 6:09 PM CDT

(Newser) – A billion-dollar business of shipping body parts from Germany to the US is booming and may be illegal, Der Spiegel reports. The body harvesting is done in the Ukraine, where authorities are investigating allegations that a company has used coercion and fraud to obtain family...   Read full story »

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