Grist to the Mill

14 September, 2004

COLLAGEN

Watched a bit of Channel 5's 'Cosmetic Surgery - Live!' series the other night and was baffled to hear that collagen - the stuff that wealthy folk inject into their skin to plump it up when it starts to thin and sag (different to Botox), anyway, that some of this collagen (if it doesn't come from the recipient him/herself) is harnessed / harvested from circumcised babies' foreskins!!!

How is it extracted? Surely there's not enough skin to collect very much?

I started to wonder whether it was an April Fool's-type prank but apparently not.

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