Tissue Engineering

FDA Releases Human Tissue Task Force Report

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 1st, 2007

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a report that concludes there are no significant industrywide problems in the recovery of human tissues used for transplantation.

The report was issued by FDA's Human Tissue Task Force (HTTF), an intra-agency group assembled in August 2006 to evaluate the effectiveness of FDA's tissue regulations.

The HTTF recommended targeted inspections or a "blitz" of U.S. companies that recover human tissues - including tendons, ligaments, bone and other musculoskeletal tissues. One goal of the blitz was to look for more widespread problems in tissue recovery after FDA ordered two companies to cease...

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