Download or read book Guide to Safety and Quality Assurance for Organs, Tissues, and Cells written by Council of Europe Publishing and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of this publication which contains guidance on the transplantation of organs, tissues and cells of human origin for therapeutic purposes. It sets out safety and quality assurance standards for the procurement, preservation, processing and distribution of human organs, tissues and cells, in order to promote ethical concerns which recognise the safety and dignity of the donor and the recipient. The guide also contains the additional protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine on the transplantation of organs and human tissues.