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New Jersey tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, including bones taken from Alistair Cooke, and merged into RTI Biologics in 2008. | Paterson, New Jersey | 2026-09-23 | 2026-09-23 |
Tutogen Medical, Inc., of Paterson, New Jersey, was a tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, the company of Michael Mastromarino. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was one of five processors that received BTS tissue directly and recalled it in September and October 2005.1 According to the New York Daily News, bones taken from the body of the broadcaster Alistair Cooke were sold for more than 7,000 dollars to Tutogen and Regeneration Technologies.2 In 2008 the Associated Press reported that the processors that had bought from BTS faced hundreds of civil suits from recipients.3 On February 27, 2008, Tutogen completed its merger with Regeneration Technologies, in a transaction valued at about 205 million dollars, to form RTI Biologics, Inc.4
Footnotes
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Investigation into Recalled Human Tissue for Transplantation, United States, 2005-2006," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 55, no. 20 (2006), p. 564. ↩︎
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"TV host Alistair Cooke's bones allegedly stolen," NBC News (msnbc.com, from the New York Daily News), December 22, 2005. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10574333 ↩︎
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Goldman, Adam. "Body-parts big pleads guilty," Philadelphia Daily News, March 19, 2008. https://www.inquirer.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080319_Body-parts_big_pleads_guilty.html ↩︎
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Regeneration Technologies, Inc. "Regeneration Technologies, Tutogen Medical Merger Completed," press release, Exhibit 99.1 to SEC filing, February 27, 2008. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1100441/000119312508043151/dex991.htm ↩︎