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The Committee on Safety of Medicines reviewed Dr Peter Jones' letter regarding AIDS and the heat treatment of clotting factor and advised that there was insufficient evidence for action to be taken on any specific product.

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Dr Jones apologised to the DHSS for making public his statement about heat-treated Factor 8 being unsafe.

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The CBLA agreed to finance the trial of 8CRV.

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Dr Brian Colvin thought that it would be more problematic if the heat-treated commercial products turned out to be unsafe from HIV.

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The Krever Inquiry found that Armour should have informed the Canadian Bureau of Biologics about Dr Prince's findings, but chose not to.

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Contrary to the findings of the Krever Inquiry, Justice Benotto, in a subsequent Canadian criminal case in 2007, found that it would have been unreasonable and irresponsible for Armour to have thrust Prince's studies into the community in a time of great uncertainty.

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The Northern Regional Health Authority's position on funding additional cost was yet to be declared.

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Armour Pharmaceutical Company Limited in the UK was incorporated in 1959. It had several changes in name and parent company and was dissolved in 2010.

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From mid March 1985 Cutter had taken the strategic decision to stop selling unheated stock to UK centres.

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An internal report of Cutter speaking of the UK sales position recorded that a small "short dated batch" of non-heat-treated concentrate was sold during the previous month.

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An inventory for Alpha UK showed that just under 25% of its current stocks remained non-heat-treated at the start of September 1985.

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The response by UK doctors to steps taken in the US was mixed. Dr Harris reported that Dr Rotblat "had been summoned to the Chief Medical Officer of the DHSS to answer questions concerning our product recall and discussions held in March concerning potential problems with Armour Factorate HT."

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Cutter had shown a hepatitis rate from heat treated products of 20% in "virgin or near-virgin" patients in studies in Bonn and Freiburg, and Hyland had a rate of 80% in a multi-centre study conducted by Dr Pier Mannucci.

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The first batch of Cutter product, Koate HT, which was made from 100% tested plasma was shipped to the UK in January/February 1986.

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An internal Cutter memo recorded that although "Cutter will only sell 100% screened material" nonetheless "some Centre Directors are happy to use up their existing stock of unscreened Koate HT."

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Dr Rotblat was intending to discuss the matter of seroconversion further with Robert Christie of Armour to ascertain if he had any possible new evidence.

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In a paper on the safety of heat-treated Factor 8 prepared by Dr Rotblat, it was reported there were two cases of seroconversion after treatment with heat-treated Factorate from a batch known to contain a donor who had AIDS.

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Gilbert C et al published an article in "The Lancet" describing a case of seroconversion of AIDS in a person with mild haemophilia after administration of high doses of heat treated Factor 8 concentrate.

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Professor Arthur Bloom wrote to the DHSS to urge that heat-treated products be licensed so as to be freely available.

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Professor Bloom was assured by the DHSS that prompting "the appropriate manufacturers" to apply for abridged product licences to ensure the supply of heat-treated product was a "high priority item".

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