A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by The Guardian has discovered.

Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about".

One agent told the Guardian's researcher: "A lot of the research is still carried out in the traditional manner using skin from the executed prisoner and aborted foetus." This material, he said, was being bought from "biotech" companies based in the northern province of Heilongjiang, and was being developed elsewhere in China.


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Killing from behind a Desk

Just how responsible are you in behaviour that is normal but results in perverse actions being taken on your behalf.


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