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Euroblood
Transfusion medicine A unit of packed RBCs imported from Europe which, until 2002, comprised a significant minority of the units transfused; in the wake of concern about mad cow disease, the FDA implemented a pan-European deferral, ending the 30-year old program that provides 140,000 packed units/yr to the New York metropolitan area


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Yet, New York Blood Center faces additional challenges as its long-standing European blood import program, known as Euroblood, ended late last year.
These new guidelines also bring an end to New York Blood Center's 30-year-old Euroblood program, where nearly 150,000 pints of red cells were imported from Europe each year to make up for a historically low local donor participation rate.
But due to these new guidelines, we also will lose over 11,000 donations from our Euroblood program this June," pointed out Dr.
 
 
 
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