The emergence and pitfalls of international tissue banking |
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Authors: | Glyn O. Phillips |
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Affiliation: | 1.Phillips Hydrocolloids Research Ltd (Wales and China),Radyr, Cardiff,Wales, UK |
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Abstract: | The rapid growth of tissue banking and associated international organisations following the fall of the Berlin wall in 1991 is described. This surge in collaboration led to a world-wide constructive movement to use and to produce human tissues. As the years progressed industrialisation, led by the USA, improved the quality of tissue allografts but led higher costs and consolidation within the developing industry. The growth of litigation more than kept pace with the industrial progress. One landmark case is described, the outcome of which could revolutionise the current practices now applied to eliminate possible viral contamination of implanted tissue grafts. |
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