Lawsuit Against Lost Mountain Tissue Bank

Lawsuits Filed Against Lost Mountain Tissue Bank, Tutogen Medical, Inc., and Biomedical Tissue Services

A bone implant lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a patient for unspecified damages. The patient claims that he received a neck bone that was illegally obtained from a cadaver. The lawsuit is filed against Biomedical Tissue Services, Lost Mountain Tissue Bank, and Tutogen Medical plus three other human tissue companies. The bone implant case is seeking class action status because numerous people who received letters from hospitals where they had bone and tissue transplants have come forward.

The patient plus two other patients who received bone and tissue transplants at Shore Memorial Hospital in New Jersey tested negative for diseases but said they fear long term incubation diseases like HIV that might not show up right away.

The FDA said that Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd. shipped tissues to human tissue processors, Lost Mountain Tissue Bank of Kennesaw, Ga. and Tutogen Medical, Inc., of Alachua, Fla.

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FDA records show that Lost Mountain Tissue Bank received an official warning in 2003 that it was failing to prepare, validate, and follow written procedures for prevention of infectious disease contamination or cross-contamination by tissue during processing. The agency also said the Kennesaw facility routinely reworked tissue products in order to extend the expiration date without validated written procedures for the reworking of human tissue products. FDA records indicate the Lost Mountain Tissue Bank corrected the problems to the agency's satisfaction.

Tutogen Medical conducted a voluntary recall of all materials that were manufactured utilizing Biomedical Tissue Services donor tissue. This action is being taken because Tutogen is unable to satisfactorily confirm that donor eligibility had been properly obtained by Biomedical Tissue Services. Tutogen informed its consignees that there is a lack of assurance that appropriate donor identification, donor screening, and medical history data collection was performed and, therefore, a risk of infectious disease exists.

Other patients who received bone tissue transplants at Shore Memorial Hospital tested positive for syphilis and hepatitis. Lawsuits have been filed against the Lost Mountain Tissue Bank, Biomedical Tissue Services, Tutogen Medical, and other medical supply companies, the funeral parlor who let the body thefts occur, and two men alleged to be a part of the scheme.

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