21.   The reports described a virtually unregulated industry in which private companies make exorbitant profits trading in body parts supplied by tissue banks.

22.   They are fiercely protective of their tissue bank.

23.   This year the Food and Drug Administration required tissue banks to register and list their products, said Dr. Martha Wells, an FDA regulatory scientist.

24.   Though an industry group sets voluntary guidelines, most tissue banks are not members, and many set their own guidelines.

25.   Tissue banks in the Burn First network will be required to give Collagenesis the second layer of skin not used for burn victims.

26.   Tissue banks in Miami, London and Bonn now collect tracheas.

27.   Unaccredited tissue banks are not required to comply with external quality requirements beyond routine screening for viruses.

28.   Under the agreement, hundreds of thousands of those tissue samples will go into a tissue bank for genetic studies.

29.   Both the FDA and the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services said the FDA does not have enough money to regularly inspect all tissue banks.

30.   Families generally are not told that donations to a nonprofit tissue bank may ultimately go to for-profit companies that process skin, bone and other tissue.