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In tissue banking, both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations operate to make up a network of tissue banks, organ procurement organizations, and eye banks that recover and distribute tissue.

Most U.S. tissue bank companies get their supply of cadaver tissue through Willed Body Donation programs run by the tissue bank itself.

In the United States, all transplant tissue banks must be registered with the FDA and are inspected routinely for compliance to federal regulations. Tissue provided by AATB accredited tissue banks are required to comply with FDA, AATB Standards, and all state and local regulations.

The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a professional, non-profit, scientific, and educational organization. AATB is the premier standard-setting body promoting the safety and use of donated human tissue.

In the United States, all transplant tissue banks must be registered with the FDA and are inspected routinely for compliance to federal regulations. Tissue provided by AATB accredited tissue banks are required to comply with FDA, AATB Standards, and all state and local regulations.

Tissue banking is the activity of harvesting, processing, storage and distribution of transplantable human tissues. Tissues retrieved from the human body are used to repair and or replace the diseased or lost tissues of living human body and have saved many precious lives.

Most U.S. tissue bank companies get their supply of cadaver tissue through Willed Body Donation programs run by the tissue bank itself.

The Tissue Bank collects and stores a wide range of biological samples including frozen tumour, DNA, plasma, bone marrow as well as other different sample types.