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Within a year, announcements of plasma product recalls emerged several times a month, hitting supplies of immune globulin particularly hard.
The number of plasma product companies has declined from 13 in 1990 to 9 in 2003 to 5 now — Baxter International of Deerfield, Ill.; CSL of Australia; Talecris, of Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Grifols of Spain; and Octapharma of Switzerland.
Nearly 5,000 people were infected with hepatitis C; of these 1,200 contracted HIV after receiving the imported plasma product in the late 70s and early to mid-80s.
A total of 4,676 people were infected with hepatitis C and of these 1,200 also contracted HIV via a plasma product called Factor VIII made from blood taken from 10,000 paid donors, many of them prisoners.
Transfusable plasma is obtained by processing whole blood donations, by apheresis, or as solvent/detergent plasma (SD plasma), a pooled pathogen-reduced plasma product.
Carole Grayson, whose husband Peter Longstaff died of HIV-related illness in April 2005, and who did her MA on the issue, told the hearing that in 1975 the BPL was warned by US scientists that a blood plasma product was "extraordinarily hazardous with a 50-90% hepatitis risk" and that its donors were all on "skid row".
As infectious donations, if collected from donors in the testing window period, can still be introduced into manufacturing plasma pools, the production of pooled plasma products requires a specific approach that integrates additional viral reduction procedures.
Soon afterward, Federal officials discovered serious violations of manufacturing standards among makers of plasma products and demanded improvements that often slowed production.
Together they would control 35percentt of the world market for blood plasma products.
Together, Bayer and Aventis would control about 35percentt of the world market for blood plasma products.
There have been no known cases of an infectious disease being transmitted through plasma products for more than a decade.
