The banking of human tissues for clinical transplantation has grown exponentially in the past 10-15 years. Tissue banks have been set up throughout the world, initially on an ad hoc basis. More recently these have grown and in many countries have linked up with larger international companies. While standards for the procurement, processing and storage of the tissues have kept pace with the growth of the subject, this is not so with the legal considerations associated with the practice. There is no unified legal system which is internationally operated. Europe, USA, Asia, Latin America, China have been developing legal systems on an individual basis.This book describes the present state of the development of laws to control and make the banking and use of tissues legal and safe. It describes, for the first time, the current systems which are used throughout the world and points the way to setting up a harmonized global legal system.

Excerpt from Regulation of Human Tissue Banks: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, First Session, Washington, DC, October 5, 1993 Regulation of Human Tissue Banks: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Committee on Small Business, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, First Session, Washington, DC, October 5, 1993 was written by an unknown author in 1994. This is a 422 page book, containing 116638 words and 16 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book provides a coherent and up-to-date review of the scientific and technical principles in routine tissue banking practices, incorporating a plethora of new guidance and regulatory documents produced in response to recent regulation.