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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10960
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health

Industrial blood plasma should be viewed as a medicine

Brussels, 08/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - The processing, conservation and distribution of industrial prepared plasma made from whole blood for blood transfusions (SD plasma) should be covered only by the EU directive on medicines (2001/83/EC) rather than the EU directive on quality and safety for the collection, control, processing, conservation and distribution of human blood (Directive 2002/98/EC), said European Court of Justice Advocate-General Niilo Jääskinen in conclusions issued on...

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