In short, you can not use a sample for anything for which you do not
have informed consent.
Post mortem material is covered by the by the new national PM consent
form and leaflets which explain the use of leftover samples for
quality control.
However there is no similar national consent form for biopsy/surgical
material.
You need to be sure that your Trust explains the possible use for
samples for controls.
My trust does this with a leaflet which is given to patients/parents
when consent for the biopsy procedure is obtained and we operate an
opt-out system.  I.E. they are told if they don't opt-out of the
"Non- teaching and non-research (QC) use" then the sample may be used
for it.
We have a pathology wide flag on the patients record alerting labs of
patients who have opted out.  From a patients point of view, if they
tell a doctor that they want to opt-out they may well expect that all
subsequent samples will also prevented from being used for QC.

 --- Kemlo Rogerson  wrote: > Apparently there
is an issue concerning control material and organ
> retention in the UK. What are the recommendations please?
>  
> I realise they are commercially available but can they be retained
> after
> consent?
>  
> Yours truly,
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> A recovering Cytologist
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