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Pakistan cracks down on network smuggling human placentas for anti-aging injections
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Pakistan cracks down on network smuggling human placentas for anti-aging injections
Pakistani authorities have arrested nine people in a raid on a network that bought human placentas from hospitals and exported them for use in anti-aging products.
- The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) seized 500 kilograms of human placentas at an illegal processing facility in Islamabad and arrested five suspects.
- The FIA said the network purchased approximately 200 kilograms of placentas monthly from hospitals, paying around $2.90 per placenta.
- Hina Kanwal, a Pakistani organ transplant authority official, stated that buying or selling human placentas is illegal in Pakistan and that the activity required hospital complicity.
- The FIA also intercepted a 100-kilogram shipment of human placentas at Islamabad airport destined for Vietnam.
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