Blood Banking

Red Cross Initiates Voluntary Withdrawal of Blood Products

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 1st, 1995

The American Red Cross, Northern Ohio Blood Services, is voluntarily withdrawing a limited quantity of blood collected between January 28, 1993, and April 17, 1995, after discovering a non-HIV-related testing error.

At issue are intermittent malfunctions in an instrument that performs the screening assay for Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) over this two-year period.

At this time, Red Cross officials believe the risk for infectious disease transmission to be extremely remote for several reasons:

all other test results for infectious diseases, including HIV and the three other screening tests for hepatitis, were normal on each of...

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