Conference Coverage (Blood Safety)

Quarantine and Inventory Hold Programs Offer Safety Advantages

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 26th, 1997

Obtaining plasma only from healthy individuals who donate regularly and quarantining it for at least three months are essential safeguards to protect the plasma pool, says Immuno-U.S., Inc.

"With this system we can produce plasma as safe as that from a volunteer whole blood system," said A. Thomas Waytes, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President, Medical Affairs, Immuno-U.S., Inc., Rochester, Michigan at the Blood Safety & Screening Conference, sponsored by Cambridge Healthtech Institute, April 14-16, 1997, in McLean, Virginia.

To obtain the safest plasma possible, it is necessary to attract the highest quality plasma donors, he indicated. He described how...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1997-05-26)

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