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Traders prepare fish at the Central Wholesale Market in Osaka.Image: www.imago-images.de
“Numerous” bottles containing human organs were found at the central fish and vegetable market in Osaka, Japan. This was reported by the Japanese daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun on Friday evening.
The discovery happened in September, but has only now become public. On the morning of September 18th, a cleaner found several bottles packed in cardboard boxes next to the market’s waste collection point. There was a human organ in each of the bottles.
As “Asahi” further writes, the local police assume based on the shape and characteristics of the bottles that the organs are medical waste – that is, possibly damaged organs that were removed from patients and possibly replaced.
There is a possibility that the waste was illegally disposed of on the market. Organs (and other materials that may be infected with disease) must be disposed of by specialists in Japan. The police are investigating, among other things, a violation of the waste disposal law. (cpf)