Minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Blood and Tissue for Transplantation (MSBT) meeting, 29 October 1998, re leucodepletion, HTLV 1, blood products - manufacture of blood products from non-UK plasma, record keeping and CMOs initiative, HCV lookback study, NAT testing, deferral of donors who were blood transfusion recipients, testing for Hepatitis B core antibody, progress report on nvCJD, screening for other transmissible agents, fresh frozen plasma/Octaplas. Chairperson Dr. J. S. Metters.