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Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:47:10 EDT
Subject: More on standards

October 14, 2005
From Steve Bridge

After reading the posts from Brian, Ben, and Charles, I am willing to rethink 
the idea that technical cryopreservation standards might be more possible to 
develop than I thought.  I still think this will take a lot of time; but it 
might be doable if it has some champions who will hang on to it.

An added comment in reply to Charles:

>Re Steve Bridge's post, it's important to distinguish between
>different types of self-regulation. I wasn't aware that
>anyone was going to try to set financial guidelines. 

That's why I quoted John de Rivaz's post.

>Surely the first step is simply to agree on "optimum" procedures for
>standby, transport, perfusion, cooling, and storage, and for
>reasons previously stated, we have an excellent opportunity
>to pursue this right now.  

That will take months to accomplish.  A better first step is simply to agree 
that for an organization to honestly offer human cryopreservation to the 

public, that organization must have certain basics like legal paperwork, a 
cooling 
mechanism, a storage faciliy or a completed contract for storage with someone, 
a team of some kind, a financial plan and report, etc.

We should be able to have an agreement on that kind of list within a month 
(or whenever the next Board meeting is for each organization).  Then perhaps 
that can be the cooperation springboard to further agreements.

Steve Bridge


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