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Table 39-2.

National and International Reports in Xenotransplantation and National Regulatory Efforts

  • National and International Reports on Xenotransplantation

  • World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation in Xenotransplantation

  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.)—Xenotransplantation Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

  • United Kingdom Advisory Group on Ethics of Xenotransplantation—The Kennedy Report

  • Nuffield Council on Bioethics—Animal-to-Human Transplants: Ethics of Xenotransplantation

  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—Policy on International Issues in Transplantation Biotechnology

  • Health Canada—National Forum on Xenotransplantation: Clinical Ethics and Regulatory Issues, November 1997

  • National Regulatory Efforts

  • United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority (UKXIRA)

  • Canada: Standards for Xenotransplantation—Canadian Standards Association (CSA)

  • German Medical Council on Xenotransplantation

  • Council of Europe Steering Committee on Transplantation— responsible for the moratorium on xenotransplantation of January 1999

  • Ètablissement Français des Grèffes