Blood Safety

South African Government Denies Exporting Contaminated Blood Products

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, September 11th, 2000

In response to published accusations that for years it exported virus-contaminated human plasma, South Africa's department of health says a World Health Organization (WHO) investigation has found the blood products in question did not originate in South Africa.

An article in the August 27, 2000, edition of the London Sunday Times stated that human plasma containing the human immunodeficiency and hepatitis viruses and labeled as animal plasma had been shipped from South Africa to Britain for 20 years ("Scandal of HIV blood sold as safe by South Africans," by Karen MacGregor and Fiona Fleck). Blood products from non-human animals do not undergo the same strict safety...

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