From Reuters, via The Australian:
CHINA is to ban the trade and commercial use of corpses, further tightening controls on a transplant market that critics say has been beset by illegal trade in organs, often involving executed prisoners.
The rules, which take effect on August 1, bar all use of donated bodies except for medical research and require burial once research is complete. [Full text]
See also China regulates use, int’l movement of bodies, parts by Xinhua
