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|accessdate=2011-04-28
}}</ref> which is the company that makes [[TNS Recovery Complex]]. This [[skin ]] product contains [[NouriCel]], which is an ingredient created from harvested infant foreskins.<ref name='SkinMedica 2011'>{{REFweb | quote=TNS Recovery Complex is the only product containing a professional concentration of NouriCel®, a new cosmetic ingredient from leading tissue-engineering company Advanced Tissue Sciences.
|url=http://www.corporate.skinmedica.com/press/2002/skinmedica-launches-tns-recovery-complex
|title=SkinMedica Introduces TNS Recovery Complex
}}</ref>
According to Fitzpatrick, using foreskin fibroblasts to make the cream is "ethical", because the company only uses the growth hormone from growing artificial [[skin ]] derived from infant foreskins,<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Euringer
|first=Amanda
|quote=...using foreskin fibroblast to make cream is ethical, because the company does not put any actual human tissue in their products...
|accessdate=2011-09-25
}}</ref> and because the [[skin ]] tissue is not obtained from stem cells or aborted fetal tissue.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Euringer
|first=Amanda
|date=2007-01-30
|publisher=The Tyee
|quote=Foreskins were used because that is a common surgery and the [[skin ]] is thrown away, so why not use it for benefits? Twelve years ago when this was done there would have been no objection to using foreskin tissue.
|accessdate=2011-09-25
}}</ref> He says that technology to make cell cultures without foreskins is possible, but "much more expensive".<ref>{{REFnews
|quote=...although you can use technology to make the cell cultures from scratch, without foreskins, the process is <q>much more expensive</q>.
|accessdate=2011-09-25
}}</ref> Using foreskins from older men is unacceptable because fibroblasts made from infant [[skin ]] produces more and lasts longer.<ref>{{REFnews
|last=Euringer
|first=Amanda