IVF doctor urges regulators to defer new human tissue rules pending EU trends
(sz) The Irish Fertility Society, of which Dr John Waterstone is a committee member, has written to the Department of Health and the Irish Medicines Board highlighting its concerns at the interpretation and implementation of the EU human tissue directive.
Ireland and Denmark are the only two countries which have transposed the Directive into law, so Ireland, along with Denmark, are at the forefront of its implementation.
Dr Waterstone, who is Medical Director of the Cork Fertility Centre, told IMN that the regulatory bodies should consider a delay in implementing the regulations, before it finalises its own interpretation, in order to see how other countries go about introducing the legislation.
The Society’s two major issues relate to the air quality requirements for IVF clinics and the timing of screening for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV in patients. more…
From: »The Irish Medical News«