In Brief: HHS blood safety committee
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
HHS blood safety committee: Department of Health and Human Services establishes an Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability to advise the department on issues involving the nation's blood supply, according to an Oct. 23 Federal Register notice. Topics to be considered by the committee will include: "the implications of blood safety and availability of various economic factors affecting product cost and supply; definition of public health parameters around safety and availability of the blood supply; and broad public health, ethical and legal issues related to safety of the blood supply." HHS, which announced plans to form the committee in October 1995 ("The Gray Sheet" Oct. 16, 1995, I&W-9), calls for nominations of "authorities knowledgeable in blood banking, transfusion medicine, bioethics and related disciplines" to serve on the committee...