Destructive statists: OZschwitz regulation may crush body tissue industry

In his nitrogen room alongside the morgue in central Melbourne, Stefan Poniatowski outlines his dilemma.

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''We don't want to make a profit,'' the head of the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria says. ''We want to facilitate this gift and make sure it gets from donor to recipient in the best way possible.''

The gift is a supply of reusable human body parts, the most comprehensive collection in Australia. Comprising skin, bone, tendons and heart valves, its uses range from the life-enhancing - reconstituted bone chips can assist fracture healing and ease pain, tendons can propel elite athletes past otherwise career-ending injuries - to truly life-saving cadaver skin grafts, which are sometimes the last hope of people with severe burns.

As demand intensifies, Poniatowski's costs are escalating: freezers, processing chemicals, technical and administrative staff and, increasingly, scientific testing and compliance fees. But he cannot raise his prices, which are set strictly by the federal government down to the last dollar based on what it calculates are his outgoings to collect a body part from a dead person then process and store it.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/rules-break-the-skin-and-bone-bank-20120720-22fdr.html#ixzz21DicJ8em

Destructive statists: OZschwitz regulation may crush body tissue industry

Destructive statists: OZschwitz regulation may crush body tissue industry

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