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15.07.2019 back forward

25 Years Batch Testing of Blood Products

Batch release (Source: A. Buck / Paul-Ehrlich-Institut)

On 15 July 1994, the then Federal Minister of Health Horst Seehofer published the “Ordinance on the Introduction of Official Batch Testing of Blood Preparations” in the Federal Law Gazette. In the same year, Seehofer transferred responsibility for blood and blood products to the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. These measures were a consequence of the HIV scandal in the 1990s, when thousands of people with haemophilia became infected with HIV. Today, blood and blood products in Germany are among the safest in the world, thanks in part to the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut.