Potential release of aluminum and other metals by food-grade aluminum foil used for skin allograft cryo preservation

Since 1991, the skin bank of the Queen Astrid Military Hospital uses food-grade aluminum foil as a primary support for storing cryo preserved human donor skin (511 donors). The possible release of heavy metals into the cryo preservation media (30% (v/v) glycerol in physiological water) and the possi...

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Main Authors: Verbeken, Gilbert, Schoeters, Dirck, Verween, Gunther, De Vos, Daniel, Pascual, Bruno, De Corte, Peter, Geukens, Kris, De Coninck, Arlette, Roseeuw, Diane, Rose, Thomas, Jennes, Serge, Pirnay, Jean-Paul
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135820/