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Associated Press were told on Tuesday by the 2 companies that had business dealings with Guyett, that they knew of at least 60 bodies cut up and at least 300 body parts that were recalled. They revaled that Guyett had other business associates also.

"This is something of the same magnitude at least of what we saw with Biomedical Tissue," said former FDA top attorney and tissue safety expert Areta Kupchyk. "Many people could be affected. Even if it's only 60 donors, that could affect hundreds of people."

It is still too early to measure the impact of the Guyett tissue scandal. There was no comment on the recall or the number of body parts involved, by the FDA spokeswoman Julie Zawisza.

"In specific instances where information has raised concerns about patient safety, FDA has worked with the firm that distributed the subject tissue to ensure that physicians are notified to inform patients and offer testing," Zawisza said an e-mail to The Associated Press.

According to Tipton Ford, chief of a company whose tissue transplant business was recently acquired by AlloSource, Guyett had supplied tissues from 19 donor bodies to Allosource from 2002-2004. However, this account is just a small part of Guyett's business. According to Larry Parker, president of Cremation Society of the Carolinas, a Raleigh funeral home, he was paid $1,000 by Guyett for each of the approximately 60 donors the funeral home referred. Parker began his dealings with Guyett in 2004, he believe that Guyett had business with other funeral homes too.

"He did the recovery in our facility, in the embalming room. It is not a sterile facility. It was not built for tissue recovery," said Parker, adding that he has been working with the FDA since the agency contacted him several weeks ago.

The American Association of Tissue Banks, an industry group, has given a given detailed standards on how tissue must be procured and processed under sterile condition
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