1. Bear gall bladders and bear paws have been widely used as expensive ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine.
2. And every rescued bear requires surgery to remove their ravaged gall bladders and repair damaged organs.
3. Evaluation of the welding technology application was later performed during operations on human intestines, livers and gall bladders.
4. The current method in bear farms has abandoned the use of pipes inserted permanently in the animals'gall bladders and the extraction process is painless.
5. Robinson said many bears were still had catheters surgically implanted into their gall bladders although regulators had banned that painful method of bile extraction.