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People travel for many reasons. Cultural experience. Family vacation. Business. Kidneys. Spleens. That's right, after years of rumor and denial, China has officially admitted that its organ business is booming. And in an attempt to answer critics that claim prisoners were being executed just to fill the huge demand for organs, new rules will regulate the organ industry in China:

BEIJING -- China has acknowledged the practice of "transplant tourism," in which the organs of executed prisoners are sold to foreigners, and says it wants to regulate the sale of kidneys, livers and other body parts.
"Most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners," Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu said at a summit for transplant doctors in Guangzhou this week, state newspapers reported.
The practice had been repeatedly denied by the government.
A ministry spokesman also said that "wealthier people, including foreign patients" could jump waiting lists because they were willing to pay more.

Going rates for kidneys is $40,000 and livers $60,000. Via The Washington Times.

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