Legal Basis Of Global Tissue Banking: A Proactive Clinical Perspective

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Flap: 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.

Contributor Bio:  Phillips, Glyn O Glyn Philips is Chairman of Research Transfer Ltd and a consultant to numerous industrial companies and associations. Formerly Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry at the University of Salford and Executive Principal of The North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, he is now Chairman of the Food Hydrocolloids Trust and of the Cellucon Trust.