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The original CDC experiments on heat treatment had been conducted with Cutter's and Alpha's products and then Hyland asked CDC to conduct similar tests on their product, with similar results.

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The enormous differences between the safety of blood from volunteers and that commercially obtained "have been repeatedly pointed out by this laboratory during the past decade".

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It was reported that commercially obtained blood was not as safe as volunteer obtained blood.

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The order of priority for Factor 8 products was: Factor 7Y [from] BPL, Haemate P [from] Behring, Profilate [from] Alpha.

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There were cost pressures related to heat-treated factor product.

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Professor Bloom stated that, "A small percentage of these freeze dried preparations contain, unavoidably, the virus of serum hepatitis and therefore potentially dangerous to the patient."

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Dr Jones "had his wrists slapped for public statements" by the CMO, Dr Donald Acheson.

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There was some evidence that some of this stock of NHS products made from unscreened donations was destroyed.

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The UK lacked the ease of access to laboratory screening to check on viral inactivation.

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There was some resistance by some clinicians to the use of heat-treated product.

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Earlier availability of virally inactivated concentrates would have made the biggest difference.

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Some Factor 8 product had been recalled, but this was probably a batch recall rather than a general recall.

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Dr Milton Mozen, the director of biochemical research and development at Cutter, emphasised in his evidence to the Institute of Medicine in the US that a heat treatment process is successful as applied by one manufacturer, it does not follow that this process would be applicable to the unique products of the other manufacturer.

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Dr Peter Fernandes stated that similar stabilisers to those which worked with the globulin could work with antihemophilic factor.

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Clive Collins stated that ,"Given the specialised medical nature of the seroconversion problem it was appropriate that my Medical Department colleagues dealt directly with the DHSS Medical staff."

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Dr Shanbrom had suggested to the executives that they should no longer take plasma from hepatitis hotspots such as downtown Los Angeles and from prisons because of the risks.

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J K Smith, Lowell Winkelman and P A Feldman reported the interim results that severe heating had been more effective in preventing transmission of non-A non-B Hepatitis than the milder heating given to at least two US commercial products.

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A clinical trial of 8Y was reported to be at a stage where several patients had safely passed the point at which first evidence of non-A non-B Hepatitis transmission would have been expected.

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Milt Mozen visited SNBTS PFC and discussed the issue of hepatitis with Jim Smith.

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Dr Peter Foster was shocked when Dr John Cash told him that the German company Behringwerke had announced at a symposium in Bonn that it was pasteurising Factor 8, as he had thought heat could not be used to inactivate virus in factor products.

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