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Old Thu Feb 2, 2012, 06:22 PM
Greg H Greg H is offline
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FDA fines Red Cross -- Again

Hi y'all!

Not to be a downer, but this certainly isn't welcome news for someone who has transfusions every other week:

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A few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration hit the American Red Cross with a nearly $10 million fine for safety violations, lax oversight and faulty testing of its blood services. The fine is just the latest of more than a dozen the Red Cross has racked up in the last decade.
There's a lengthy article here, with plenty of internal links to data and other news stories, from ProPublica, a top-notch investigative journalism outfit.

Take care!

Greg
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