Chinese Bio Firm Accused of Illicit Human Cadaver Trade

A Chinese biomaterial firm has been accused of trading thousands of stolen cadavers in an eight-year scheme, according to a leaked court document. Between January 2015 and July 2023, Shanxi Osteorad Biomaterial Co., previously a state-owned company, and an affiliated firm, allegedly acquired more than 4,300 human cadavers from several funeral homes, a transplant center, and a medical university, to make bone grafting materials. The company supplied allogeneic bone implantable materials to hospitals across 13 provinces and cities, the document said. The leaked prosecution’s document, dated May 23, was first posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Aug. 8 by Yi Shenghua, a lawyer from Beijing who has almost 2.8 million followers....