11.   Instead of a formal nationwide network, tissue banks form informal relationships with one another, leaving them susceptible to regional shortages.

12.   It would be the largest tissue bank in the world.

13.   Local tissue bank officials said that covers all possibilities, but some people disagree and want to know more.

14.   Only two states, New York and Florida, license and inspect tissue banks.

15.   Several problems cited by the FDA in an inspection of the tissue bank last year had to do with the same two employees, Martin and Cothran said.

16.   Several tissue banks were involved.

17.   So Collagenesis has developed a program, dubbed Burn First, to increase the amount of available skin and establish a formal network among tissue banks.

18.   The findings shed light on tissue banks, which include private companies and nonprofit groups that process cadaver tissue for transplantation and supply it to surgeons.

19.   The Food and Drug Administration, charged with regulating tissue banks, has been criticized for lax oversight.

20.   The hospitals that provide donors to the tissue bank are not obligated to use the bank as their supplier for grafts.