Obtaining certified human cells. A challenge of biometrology
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Health Legislation, Regulation, Alternative Methods, Organ Donation, Biotechnology, Blood Products, TransplantationAbstract
Biotechnology applied to health requires human cells for quality controls of products and for toxicological assessment of molecules that enter in contact with human body. Validated alternative methods allowed reduction and/or replacement of animal use in toxicology, but the Brazilian legislation on the use of biological materials of human ori-gin does not provide human cells with controlled and certified quality.
The critical analysis conducted in the Brazilian’ legislation on legal ways of access to human biological materials for obtaining, characterization and availability of hu-man cells, from the period of the Federal Constitution in 1988 until May 2014, showed that Brazilian society lacks rules for collection and use of human biological materials, including supply of cells, either for therapeutic use or for in vitro assays including the alternative methods for toxicology.
We propose a model for providing human biological materials such as cells, tissues, organs or body parts for research, toxicological or therapeutic use similar to the model of the surplus production of blood and its derivatives.
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