German Plasma Firm Closed

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German Plasma Firm Closed

Wall Street Journal (10/29/93) P. A11

The German government has revoked the manufacturing license of UB-Plasma, and police have shut down the pharmaceutical firm in Koblenz, Germany, which failed to ensure that all of its blood products were not contaminated with the AIDS virus. Authorities were trying to locate the company's products, their intention being to destroy potentially tainted blood that was delivered to 74 German hospitals. Although some donors to UB-Plasma tested HIV-positive, only 2,500 of 7,000 units of blood products were tested. The country is in the midst of a criminal probe concerning a scandal in which the German government disclosed that officials hushed up reports of HIV-contaminated blood that may have caused the death of some hemophiliacs.

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