The US Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability (ACBSA) has made a number of recommendations to the FDA to improve Organ transplant safety.  One of their recommendations was to:

“Identify ways to promote adoption of standardized systems (e.g., ISBT 128) for identification and codification of all organ transplants (including country of origin for those acquired abroad) to facilitate tracking and traceability."

View the letter here.

22 August 2011