FDA Fines Red Cross Over Unsafe Blood Practices

[ava]

Good read.

Now, who wants to get blood after reading this article.

http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/16/10168484-fda-fines-red-cross-nearly-96-million-for-blood-safety-lapses

Highlights:

Certain Red Cross sites have not been keeping an accurate list of deferred donors who should be barred from giving blood because of infections or other potential problems

Others weren’t conducting “lookback” investigations to track down blood from donors who turned out to have infections and to notify patients who might have received potentially contaminated blood.

Still others didn’t investigate complaints or other notices of problems, including a donor who was sprayed with blood during a mobile blood drive at the Heart of America regional center in Peoria, Ill., in 2009.

In Arizona in 2010, inspectors said a phlebotomist at a Red Cross center stuck herself with a needle and then stuck a patient with the same needle to draw a unit of blood, but no one reported the incident for a month.

[Dismal_Bliss]

Nasty!

[Greenfield]

Nasty!

What?? Don't you want to save a life??

[barbara10]

How awful! As Jehovah's Witnesses and adhering to his commandment to abstain from blood, we avoid all those horrible diseases associated with blood and maintain a clean conscience before him.