Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free october 1995 blood safety Low priority in 80s by Deborah Mcdougall Canadian press Toronto the top Federal official in charge of Canadas blood Supply told an inquiry yesterday that regulating the blood system want his highest priority during the years that the aids virus was spreading into the coun John Furesz said he was More concerned with biotechnology and handing out new drug licences than regulating the sys tem in the former head of the fed eral Bureau of told the inquiry into Canadas tainted blood scandal that government officials didst consider regulating the red Cross its hottest the Bureau of Bio Logies was the Federal Agency in charge of the red responsible for ensuring blood products were Furesz testimony shed Light on a critical piece of the Puzzle Over what went wrong in Canadas blood system that led to thousands being infected with the aids virus and hepatitis Furesz answers Drew heated questions from commission head Justice Horace who demanded to know what could have been More important to the Bureau than the blood i have some difficulty in under standing How you can say that this want of High priority compared to the other activities and concerns of the governments health Protection Krever Furesz said he speak for the entire but said he believed the Federal regulator had other things on its there was no pressing need As far As the Bureau was concerned to push it As urgently As maybe with Hindsight today it looks like it would have been better to said what were the other concerns that were More important Krever Furesz quietly answered by say ing biotechnology was More import the Bureau left regulating the blood system up to the red it thought the blood Agency could do the considering it had been collecting blood for about 40 years and had a Good International rep said Furesz was testifying with Wark Boucher and David Pope was Furesz assistant in the 1980s and Boucher was chief of the bureaus blood products Divi Hes since left to go to the red Cross where Hes assistant nation Al director of regulatory the Trio testified they were struggling for enough Money to do their jobs despite repeated Calls for More the Agency didst begin to fully regulate the red Cross until aka n bars no Coupon required Job Robin Hood flour 10 pkg bag mender inches b Chicken minute maid limeade or punches assorted 355 my 597203t each i Kraft parkay Margarine soft or 572065t Umit 2 per family each no name club Peanut butter smooth or 2 pkg 315044f each Kelloggs Rice a spies 700 g 421230 Campbells Tomato soup 284 my limit 2 per Amity 128397 works out to be each no Sockeye Salmon 213g 113530 limit 2 per family each no whole tomatoes assorted 398 my 109926f limit 2 per family each new release secret of evermore Nintendo the next i game from Square soft 88 Large red Grapefruit product of fancy Grade 540419 each Yukon Gold potatoes product of 1 Grade 547497 Sabbag each no potato 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