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The Haemophilia Society planned a meeting with the junior Minister, Geoffrey Finsberg, to seek his assurance that there would be no immediate ban on the importation of US blood products.

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In a memo to Dr Walford, Dr Oliver (DHSS) expressed the opinion that the assurance from pharmaceutical companies that future sales after June 1983 would comply with FDA guidelines was vague.

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A product licence was granted to Cutter for Factor 8 heat-treated via pasteurisation.

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Between 1970 and 1995 there were 144 Yellow Card reports relating to blood products on the Register of Adverse Reactions maintained by CSM.

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Dr Thomas was invited to speak at a meeting of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Association.He is reported to have said, "Both the commercial products now licensed had come from factories inspected by DHSS; samples and protocols had been sent to the National Institute of Biological Standards and Quality Control...No British blood product underwent similar inspection."

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Hospital Week reported a special message delivered by President Richard Nixon on Health Care in which he called for a a 'safe, fast and efficient blood collection and distribution system' arising from a general understanding by the authorities that the current system was inadequate; hospitals were often forced to buy blood which came from high risk donors such as drug addicts and derelicts.

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Dr Sheila Waiter noted that, "while it is generally accepted that the benefits of having Hemofil available for the treatment of bleeding episodes far out-weigh the risk of acquiring hepatitis B nevertheless the statement that 'every lot of this particular product is probably contaminated with hepatitis B virus' will come as a surprise to many clinicians using the product".

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Dr Harvey J Alter, Professor Paul Vincent Holland, Robert H Purcell and John L Gerin concluded that that RIA testing, which by then was available, was clearly more sensitive than CEP for revealing Hepatitis B surface antigen.

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Dr Maycock observed that the prevalence of hepatitis in the UK associated with UK blood and blood products had "long been smaller" than that in the US, but added "Until concentrate prepared from UK plasma is available, I would have said the benefits attaching to Hemofil and other similar concentrates of antihaemophilic factor, used with discrimination, outweigh the risk".

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Professor Arthur Bloom expressed concerns to Dr Holgate (DHSS). Firstly that material produced by a US company had been sold "through brokerage or other means" to Speywood where it had been relabelled as a product of their own. A second concern was that it had been reported Inter-Pharma intended to market cut price Factor 8 obtained from Cutter and from Hyland".

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Dr Holgate stated (when responding to the Speywood issue): "As I am sure you are aware one of the cornerstones of our philosophy for the licensing of 'biological' products is to have detailed knowledge of and control over early stages of manufacture and in-process control - this including source material."

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Professor Garrott Allen wrote that "it appears that at least two immunologically separate agents are capable of producing hepatitis from the transfusion of blood or the administration of many of its products". He also added that it was considered that the risk of causing hepatitis from blood taken from paid donors was markedly higher than that of blood from unpaid donors.

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CSM provided a suggested Agenda for discussion on AIDS in relation to licensed blood products which was to be held on 3 July 1983. CSM explained that the discussion was to help them decide if any action was needed in respect of AIDS and licensed blood products.

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The Government announced a 10 million payment for the Haemophilia Society to establish a trust (the Macfarlane Trust). It became a separate charity.

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The National Biological Standards Board was established under the Biological Standard Act 1975 and took over management of the National Institute of Biological Standards and Quality Control ("NIBSC").

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In a paper on the Freedom of Information legislation the CSM had concerns about its secrecy of operation.

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The Public Health Laboratory Service operated 52 area and regional diagnostic laboratories in England and Wales, providing diagnostic services and support for outbreak investigation to local hospitals, public health authorities, and environmental health departments.

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When products were required under the terms of a licence to undergo a "batch release" process, manufacturers were required to submit to NIBSC protocols which described the results of in-process tests made during the manufacture and, in most cases, submit samples.

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Dr Joseph Smith was the director of NIBSC from 1976 to August 1985.

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Dr Joseph Smith was the chair of the CSM(B) from 1981 to 1986.

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