It is essential that all medical and non-medical practitioners involved in in vitro fertilisation procedures should be regulated by an authority, the Medical Council said yesterday.

The council said the authority had to “establish, monitor and enforce a code of good practice” by limiting the number of embryos to be transferred in any one cycle.

The council was reacting to the recent parliamentary debate on the number of embryos to be transferred.

The proposed law limits the number to two embryos but the Opposition is insisting the number should not be set at law but determined by the practitioner, depending on the circumstances of the case.

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