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cord-313670-tbah33ro	Cannovo, Nunzia	Regulation of Biobanks in Italy	2020-09-02		.txt	text/plain	3400	152	43	In Italy, a biobank is "a non-profit organization that must be officially recognized by the appropriate healthcare authority in the member states and must guarantee the treatment, distribution and conservation of biological material according to standards of quality and professionalism," but must not conserve material already regulated by specific laws, as is the case for organs for transplants, blood for transfusions, as well as embryos and gametes for medically assisted reproduction. It can be said that a biobank is "a structured collection of human biological material accessible on the basis of certain criteria" (3, 4) , "in accordance with a code of good practice and correct behavior and with further indications provided by ethics committees and universities" (5) and "in which the information contained in the biological material can be traced to a specific person" (2), "for diagnostic, treatment and research purposes" (6) .	./cache/cord-313670-tbah33ro.txt	./txt/cord-313670-tbah33ro.txt