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CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- Two packages containing human body parts -- including a liver and a partial head -- that were intended for a Traverse City lab instead were delivered to a home.

The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franc and Ludivine Larmande's Kent County home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table.

"My husband started to unwrap one and said, 'This is strange, it looks like a liver,"' Ludivine Larmande told The Grand Rapids Press. "He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.

"Something wasn't right. It was scary, and I'm glad I didn't open them."

The couple called Kent County sheriff's deputies, and detectives determined the body parts -- which are preserved -- were for medical research, Lt. Roger Parent said.

Authorities believe 28 more bubble-wrapped human organs and body parts could be dispersed across the country, the newspaper said. Two of five packages headed to the northern Michigan lab broke open, scattering their contents.

"There will definitely be a shock to people if they see these things, but there is no hazard to health," Parent said.

The sheriff's department said Saturday that it didn't have any additional information about the case.

The delivery company cooperated with investigators, DHL spokesman Robert Mints said. It also is conducting an investigation to determine whether it should have shipped the body parts and how the packages were dispersed.

"We certainly handle medical specimens, and we're trying to determine if the items shipped were permissible," Mints said. "It's not immediately clear what happened."