Letter from G. M. Dusheiko, reader in Medicine/Honorary Consultant at the University Department of Medicine of the London Royal Free Hospital, to the Editor of The Independent, re: Simon Denison’s article “Patients may sue over Hepatitis C in blood” in the ‘Independent’. Dr. Dusheiko explains that he did not intend for his remarks on the testing of donor blood to be included in the article and that his remarks had been made ‘off the record’ and that the article did not quote his arguments against screening using the original test. Page MAIN/2096