Human tissue slides withdrawn from auction
Published September 21st, 2005
A collection of slides of human tissue has been withdrawn from public auction after complaints from relatives affected by the human organ scandal.
The slides were from Queen’s University, Belfast, and it is looking into how they came to be up for sale.
Kate Moore was among those affected when organs and tissues were kept by hospitals without relatives’ consent.
She was astonished to find the slides at an auction house. However, Queen’s said they were probably 70 years old.
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