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In an internal Department of Health minute from Dr David Kennedy to Dr Rejman, it was noted that the Chiron/Ortho test was under evaluation by the BTS and PHLS, and stated that another test, Fujiribo, was on the horizon.

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Dr Harris (Deputy Chief Medical Officer, England) sent a minute to various officials discussing the need for the establishment of a blood safety body to consider the transmission of infections like NANBH, and noted that the EAGA was not the appropriate body since it was only concerned with AIDS.

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The ACVSB working group on the further anti-HCV testing pilot met Department of Health officials and decided that an extended study of RIBA and PCR techniques for confirmatory testing might no longer be appropriate in light of an FDA decision.

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Dr Metters wrote a minute suggesting that the next ACVSB meeting should be brought forward to consider whether routine anti-HCV screening of blood donations should commence.

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Sir Robert McCrindle wrote to Virginia Bottomley attaching a complaint he had received from a constituent about the extensive resources being used for Hepatitis C testing.

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John Canavan circulated a first draft of a submission recommending the introduction of anti-HCV screening.

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Dr Charles Rizza wrote to all haemophilia centre directors and advised that Ortho were expected to supply test kits "for the non A non B marker, anti hepatitis virus C" to the PHLS in order to test several hundred people with haemophilia.

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Professor Tedder presented a paper on the development of a novel PCR-based assay that might provide another test in the future.

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In her oral evidence to the inquiry, Dame Contreras reflected that there was little good reason for delaying the start of testing - a policy of waiting when it had already been agreed to introduce a test was always going to result in unnecessary infections.

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In evidence, Dame Contreras told the Inquiry that arranging provision for counselling alongside anti-HCV testing was an issue of cost and manpower.

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Armour stated they would never have any prison plasma.

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Alpha's president stated that while Alpha had purchased some plasma collected from homosexuals for Hepatitis B Gamma and Vaccine, they had never used it to make AHF.

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Alpha's president stated that Alpha had no centre in San Francisco.

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Alpha's internal memo stated Alpha did not collect plasma from penal institutions.

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Alpha's US medical director's letter to US haemophilia centres stated they did not operate prison donor centres which had a large high risk population nor did they purchase plasma from prisons.

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Dr Edward Shanbrom believed he was fired because of his strong objections to Hyland's use of plasma from Angola Prison in Louisiana on the basis of hepatitis risk at that prison.

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Alpha placed an advertisement in the Advocate The National Gay News Magazine for plasma donors and listed its plasma centre in San Francisco.

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Trimar Biologics's placed an advertisement to attract blood plasma donations from the gay population exposed to hepatitis for research and production of a vaccine.

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Alpha placed an advertisement to collect plasma from gay men exposed to hepatitis for use in the development of a hepatitis vaccine and listed a number of its plasma centres across the country.

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Hyland placed an advertisement offering to pay plasma donors for hepatitis B antibodies.

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