[Histonet] Blood donations for money

[Elizabeth Chlipala]

I would contact your local department of public health or your states governing agency for hazardous/biological waste - for example in Colorado our hazardous waste is controlled by the Colorado Department of Health.  You should be able to register a complaint through them.

On a personal note and no Bob I'm not calling you out.  Not all plasma donors are sleazy I personally have donated over 50 units of platelets where I used to work and was not paid for any of it.  I did get to watch TV or a movie for a couple hours since I donated during work hours (I would actually do paperwork when I was on the machine).  I would even donate for specific patients when necessary, apparently some patients did well with my platelets.  It was really fascinating, a small suburban 400 bed hospital with a very active blood bank, I learned a lot, it was a great experience overall.

Liz

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From: Frazier, John via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu] 
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 11:58 AM
To: Bob Richmond
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] Blood donations for money

Under FDA guidelines plasmapheresis donor are held to a higher standard than red cell downers when it comes to qualifications.
Plasmapheresis donors are required take a physical once a year by a registered nurse.
Each plasma donor center must a medical director that can only be filled by a licensed physician. They are required to be on site minimum 20 hours a month to review laboratory results donor records, physical reviews, and consult any donors that were rejected due to positive lab test results.
There are many more FDA, foreign government German Health Ministry, and internal company standards that each donor center must abide by. If not they can receive 483's which is a citation, warning letters or consent decree.
Each donor is required to donate a minimum of two times with negative test results before the units can be put into production. I'll plasma is tested for viral markers, total protein, AST(liver test), West Nile, parvovirus, sexually transmitted diseases and many other lab test. This lab tests are designed to not only monitor the integrity of the plasma pool but also the donor's health.
Prior to the plasma being put into production it goes through a series of detergents, cooling and heating, Ultraviolet light that will kill any viral, bacterial and or fungal material.
To my knowledge there has not been any diseases acquired by recipients of the pharmaceutical derivatives from plasma donors since the 1990's.

These donors may be paid but that is the only way to meet the huge supply of plasma needed to make all the different plasma based products. IVIG, RhoGam, CVM immunoglobulin, Albumin, *Alpha-1 Antitrypsin*

*Here is a link to the insight of plasma donations and the governing bodies*

http://www.donatingplasma.org/


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On Jul 23, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Bob Richmond <rsrichmond at gmail.com> wrote:

Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD asks about blood donation for money. I suppose he's in the US. I don't think there's any paid donation of whole blood in the US any more. This is probably a plasmapheresis center, where people donate twice a week. The red blood cells are returned to the donor. Two cycles of this are usually done at a session.

Many, though not all, plasma donors are pretty sleazy people. I'd ask the plasma center first, then complain to local authorities about it. Most of these plasma centers are franchise operations, and you could complain to their managers also.

Most plasma products (derivatives) can be sterilized so they don't transmit viruses. Or so we hope.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Maryville TN
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Close to where I leave, there is an establishment for blood "donations".

Apparently, the establishment pays per donation. I hypothesize that the

money explains why the place is generally "hopping" (today, ca. 8:30AM,

there were ca, 25-30 cars parked in front of the establishment; Sunday

mornings, same story). Regularly, I see trash out of the store (incl. blood

splatter marks on the sidewalk, gauze, etc.).


Can someone tell me:

1. Where can one find information of the internal operations of

establishments like this?


2. Where can one report concerns about establishments like this?


3. More broadly, how can anyone *scientifically* tell whether the blood

"donated" at those (or any other) establishments is "safe" for use by other

humans?


Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD

blaypublishers.com
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