We studied the effect of the procurement team on the risk of contamination in 270 large bone allografts retrieved from 53 non-living donors under strictly aseptic conditions.The overall contamination rate was 8.1 % . When the procurement team was constituted by three or less members the contamination rate was 5.6 % , while if there were four or more members the rate was 12.9 % ; this difference was significant in the statistical analysis.