Biomedical Tissue Services

Biomedical Tissue Services (BTS) was a Fort Lee, New Jersey, human tissue recovery firm that was shut down by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)^[1] on October 8, 2005,^[2] after its president, Dr. Michael Mastromarino, and two other employees were convicted of illegally harvesting human bones, organs, tissue and other cadaver parts from individuals awaiting cremation, for forging numerous consent forms, and for selling the illegally obtained body parts to medical companies without consent of their families.^[3]

^ Holtzclaw, D; Toscano, N; Eisenlohr, L; Callan, D (2008), "The Safety of Bone Allografts Used in Dentistry: A Review" Archived 2008-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, JADA 139: 1192-1199
^ New York Daily News Boss of notorious body snatching ring gets 54 years for harvesting, March 19, 2008
^ Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[JADA-1] Holtzclaw, D; Toscano, N; Eisenlohr, L; Callan, D (2008), "The Safety of Bone Allografts Used in Dentistry: A Review" Archived 2008-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, JADA 139: 1192-1199

[DN-2] New York Daily News Boss of notorious body snatching ring gets 54 years for harvesting, March 19, 2008

[BBC-3] Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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