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To the Point

The unregulated body trade

Farrah Fasold poses for a portrait with a painting of her late father Harold Dillard at her home in Flower Mound, Texas, July 18, 2017 Photo by Brandon Wade/Reuters The transplanting of organs from dead people to living ones is strictly regulated in every state. But the business in body parts for research is another matter. Reuters news…

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By Warren Olney • Oct 31, 2017 • 1 min read

Farrah Fasold poses for a portrait with a painting of her late father Harold Dillard

at her home in Flower Mound, Texas, July 18, 2017

Photo by Brandon Wade/Reuters

The transplanting of organs from dead people to living ones is strictly regulated in every state. But the business in body parts for research is another matter. Reuters news service gave an editor and two reporters a year to examine a multi-million-dollar industry comprised of "body-brokers" and their clients. Blake Morrison is the editor.

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Andrea Brody

    Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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    Devan Schwartz

    Producer

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    Sáša Woodruff

    Producer, 'To the Point'

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    Blake Morrison

    Reuters

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