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BLOOD BANKS

Blood is money! Collecting blood for re-sale is a money-making business like most any other. So even despite newer safeguards to protect the nation's blood supply, and due to money-making competitive forces in the blood banking industry, hundreds of safety violations may still be occuring or possibly even overlooked! Safety procedures may possibly still be lacking just to accomodate the financial bottom line!

Blood donors may not be properly screened and even the equipment used to process the blood may malfunction causing potentially tainted blood to LEAVE THE BANK!

The nation's blood supply may be safer than it ever has been but one question still remains. Will the blood transfusion YOU need in an emergency be safe enough or as safe from deadly or infectious diseases as it can be?

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: CBS-TV MORNING NEWS 4/23/96

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