Inquiry will study claims that Sellafield workers' body parts were removed without families' consent

doi:10.1136/bmj.39195.497882.DB

BMJ 2007;334:868 (28 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.39195.497882.DB

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Inquiry will study claims that Sellafield workers' body parts were removed without families' consent

Owen Dyer

London

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An independent inquiry will look into claims that body partswere removed from deceased workers at Sellafield nuclear powerplant in Cumbria without their families' consent.

Michael Redfern QC, the barrister who led the inquiry into theretention of children's organs at Liverpool's Alder Hey Hospital,will examine what procedures were followed, whether consentwas obtained, and what use was made of the tissues, said AlistairDarling, the trade and industry secretary, last week.

Sixty five cases in which tissue was taken from deceased formerworkers have been identified by British Nuclear Fuels, the companythat today operates Sellafield. The workers all died between1962 and 1991.

Mr Darling said that medical records indicated that 23 sampleswere taken after a coroner's inquest and 33 after a coroner'spostmortem examination. Three requests for analysis arose fromlegal claims, while another was made by an individual beforedeath. Yet another was . . . [Full text of this article]

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