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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8035

29 August 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united states
United States to do without European blood in 2002 to prevent Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Brussels, 28/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Monday, the United States took the decision to ban, from October 2002, all imports or collection of blood from people having resided more than five years in Europe, to prevent risks of the transmission of BSE variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The details of the decision, published on Monday as a draft by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, Federal Health Authority), will be finalised by the end of 2001 and implemented in time to enable the blood...

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