UK Patients given grafts with ‘Stolen bone’

Several UK hospitals have been identified as purchasers of potentially contaminated body parts, allegedly stolen in the US. It appears that some of the patients given bone grafts with the potentially contaminated material had not been informed that this was the case. 82 bone parts were used in allograft operations involving many of UK patients, and the source of the bones is dead bodies in the US, where there are concerns that some of them may have been stolen, and a police investigation is underway. The bones, which were eventually bought by a Swindon company, were sold on to hospitals in the UK.