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Czechs may send special unit to Afghanistan ... the conditions for the processing of tissues and cells, their laboratory control, storage and distribution. The law introduces some duties for the operators of the tissue facilities, collection centres and diagnostic labs in which donors are examined. The Health Ministry is of the view as that they can significantly influence the quality and security of the tissues and cells, they will have to have systems for the maintenance and control of quality. The work of these facilities will be permitted and reviewed by the state, also through the inspectors of the National Institute for Drugs Control. Health Minister Tomas Julinek (senior ruling Civic Democrats, ODS) said in the past that the case of a Brno tissue bank whose employees were fined and received suspended prison sentences for illegal trade in human skin was a consequence of the absence of special legislation and certain arbitrariness. The new law introduces fines of up to three million crowns for the violation of the duties.
Those trading in human tissues, organs and cells are to be punishable with up to eight years in prison. The law bans advertising of donation of human cells and tissues for money or similar advantages. ODS deputy Boris Stastny pointed to last year's controversial exhibition of human bodies in Prague's Lucerna hall as an example. The exhibition put on display human cadavers, their parts and internal organs preserved by means of plastination in which all the water and fat in bodily tissues are replaced with a polymer. Previously Stastny condemned it as barbarous. (USD1=14.617 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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