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category: "Private Organization"
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tags:
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- Organization
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- BodyPartsTrade
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- BiomedicalTissueServices
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- TissueBank
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- NewJersey
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alias:
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- Tutogen Medical, Inc.
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- Tutogen Medical Inc.
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summary: "New Jersey tissue processor that bought tissue from Biomedical Tissue Services, including bones taken from Alistair Cooke, and merged into RTI Biologics in 2008."
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location: "Paterson, New Jersey"
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created: 2026-09-23
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updated: 2026-09-23
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---
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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]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: 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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[^2]: "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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[^3]: 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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[^4]: 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
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