American Association of Tissue Banks

The different levels of burn supplies that should be in reserve in the National Strategic Stockpile overseen by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in HHS for different numbers of mass disaster burn casualties and interacting with efforts such as the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism and the industrial hotline to obtain supplies in a disaster, and drawing on the expertise of the American Association of Tissue Banks relative to the availabil-ity/transport of skin for burn victims... 

Two professional associations, one based in the USA and another based in Europe, exist for the purpose of creating human tissue banking standards. The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) and European Association of Tissue Banks (EATB) provide standards for operation, tissue bank staff certification, and an accredited inspection process. The AATB and EATB have been very active in establishing tissue-banking standards for other countries with organizations that wish to develop human tissue banks for therapeutic, and more recently, research purposes. 

The activities of the bank should be conducted following a set of standard operating procedures such as those provided by the International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) (26) (see Note 7). In addition to the ISBER, the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) provides guidance for standard operating procedures in its Self-assessment Tool/Audit Report (STAR) for therapeutic tissue and reproductive banks, Section B, General Organizational Requirements of a Tissue Bank (27). 

American Association of Tissue Banks founded www.aatb.org/About-AATB... 

American Association of Tissue Banks, December 2013. Guidance Document, Evaluation of Body Cooling at Standard D5.400, Number 7, Version 2. 

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