The impact of the changes of the european union and national legislation on the practice of a tissue bank

Abstract

The authors present a summary of current trends in safety standarts set by the European Union legislation and harmonized legislation of the Czech Republic and rewiev their impact on harvest and processing of allogeneic and xenogenic biological skin grafts in the Tissue Bank of the Univerzity Hospital Hradec Králové.

Keywords

• Tissue Bank
• tissue establishment
• European Union directive
• allogeneic skin grafts
• xenogenic skin grafts
• skin tranplantation