PEI (Paul-Ehrlich Institute) selected for WHO blood/IVDs group:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Germany's federal office for sera and immunology, the Paul-Ehrlich Institute (PEI), has been selected to join the WHO's co-operation centre for quality assurance in blood products and in vitro diagnostics. The Langen-based unit, which took over responsibility for these area from the former BGA in 1994, will support the WHO in lifting standards "to a level that we have long enjoyed in Germany and Europe", said state secretary at the health ministry Dr Klaus Theo Schroder. Head of the PEI's haematology and transfusion medicine division Professor Rainer Seitz will represent the German institute at the co-operation centre for an initial four-year term.