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Activity related to the organ trade around the world

Also see the photographic essay by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Germany

• Organ sales
  
  The University of Heidelberg, with commissions of the automobile industry, bought child cadavers as test-dummiess for simulated crash tests. The cadavers were "donated" (for a few hundred marks with the permission of the parents) while the crash dummy mannequins cost the industry at least 2000 marks. (La Repubblica, 234 de Novembro de 1993), La Stampa, 26 de novembro de 1993).