The use of bodies of the Texas probes of the Medical Faculty according to NBC messages without approval

This article is part of “Use the dead”, “ A series that examines the use of unused corpses for medical research.

The state regulatory authorities in Texas examine the failure of a medical faculty to notify surviving family members before cutting and renting the corpses of their relatives.

The Health Science Center of the University of North Texas informed the Health Science Center at the Texas Funeral Service Commission on October 18 that it opened an examination of the center of the body's body donation program.

The announcement of the complaint was published one month after the publication of NBC News, which showed that the center based in Fort Worth had examined and rented out hundreds of unused areas without the prior consent of the dead or surviving.

The failure of the center to maintain the permission of the next relatives before corporations have been used for medical research-and his refusal to release the later exemption immediately, may have violated later legal law, the investigator of Funeral Service Commission, Rudy Villarreal, wrote in the letter, which has been addressed since then, the since then has resigned. Villarreal also claimed that the center had not received permission from the supervisory authorities before they sent bodies and parts of the body across the condition limits.

The funeral celebration commission that regulates body donation in the state has the authority to issue fines against programs for violations. In a statement on Wednesday, the agency confirmed that the examination has not yet been completed.

The spokesman for the Health Science Center, Andy North, said that the center had “worked hard to ensure a complete and accurate production of documents that were requested as part of the probe.

The investigation of the funeral companies Commission is part of a cascade of changes and official measures triggered by the reporting of NBC News. The news organization discovered dozens of families who said they had claimed their relatives' bodies and given them appropriate funerals if they had been informed of their death. Some were still looking for their relatives without knowing that they had died. The dead included military veterans, people who had to struggle with drug addiction and homelessness, and a young murder victim.

The Health Science Center sent many of the body and body parts to medical faculties outside the state, device manufacturers and health education companies.

In response to the results of the reporters, the Health Science Center announced in September that it was exposed to its body donation program, released the officials and hired a consultant to check the operations of the program. North made an explanation last autumn and apologized to the families concerned.

The counties of Dallas and Tarrant, which had made the health science center available with more than 2,300 unused bodies under contracts from 2019, ended their agreements with the center. Device manufacturers, research companies and other groups that had been at the center for body-Boston Scientific and the US Army deflection have canceled their business relationships with the program. And last week, a Senator of the State of Texas presented a legislation to prohibit the use of unused authorities without consent.

In its October letter, the funeral service commission asked the health science center to hand over documents in connection with the operation of its body donation program and to determine a 15-day period for compliance with compliance. North said that the health science center was later granted an extension by 45 days and provided records monthly.

So far, the center has turned over more than 1,800 documents, said an official from the funeral home Commission.

Regardless of this, the Commission sent the Health Science Center a ceasefire in November in which it ends their practice to dispose of corpses by liquefying them through a process that is generally referred to as water and which the Commission is illegal in Texas.

In its official response to the Commission, which was sent on December 4, the Health Science Center defended the use of water threads that formally referred to as alkaline hydrolysis, but said that it had already stopped the practice in September.