The procedure of our orthopaedic bone bank is based on guidelines of The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), and the criteria of the Council for Blood Transfusion of the Netherlands Red Cross (Richtlijn Bloedtransfusie 2004), together with the recently merged Netherlands Bone Bank Foundation (NBF) and Bio Implant Services (BIS) (NBF-BIS Foundation 2010).