Thousands of pills filled with powdered human flesh have been discovered by customs officials in South Korea

The capsules are in demand because they are viewed as being a medicinal cure-all. The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born. The tiny corpses are then bought, stored in household refrigerators in homes of those involved in the trade before they are removed and taken to clinics where they are placed in medical drying microwaves. Once the skin is tinder dry, it is pummelled into powder and then processed into capsules along with herbs to disguise the true ingredients from health investigators and customs officers. Tests carried out on the pills confirmed they were made up of 99.7% human remains. The tests were successfully able to establish the genders of the babies used. There have been disturbing reports that some babies were those who had perished in China's notorious dying rooms where youngsters are deliberately left to die because they were born into families that already had the limit of one child in country areas. In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year - mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities. The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38% of women of child-bearing age have been sterilized.