Thursday, 4 November 2021

Infected blood scandal: firm claimed products were safe despite using untested donors

Armour UK also aware two people who had used its products had tested HIV positive, the inquiry heard

A pharmaceutical company continued to insist its blood products were safe despite knowing it had used untested donors and that two people who had used the products had tested HIV positive, the infected blood inquiry has heard.

On Thursday, Christopher Bishop, former marketing manager at Armour UK, a major supplier of blood products, which proved to be contaminated, became the first employee of a pharmaceutical company involved in the infected blood scandal to give evidence to the statutory inquiry.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3BL2xUH

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