Body parts scandal grows amid infection fears

The scope of a US scandal involving body parts plundered from corpses has begun to emerge amid a flood of legal action, with one company alone saying it has distributed thousands of pieces of human tissue that authorities fear could be tainted with disease.

In addition, three other companies have reported quarantining or destroying more than $5m in tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services – the now-defunct New Jersey company at the centre of the scandal.