From: AlanRCan@aol.com Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:55:37 -0400 (EDT) To: msb@netcom.com, PBurton3@aol.com, LandHFoods@aol.com, LHeart2U@aol.com, Grizzlygrk@aol.com, NEWSPEAK@aol.com, demeo@mind.net, edgarren@waonline.com, egehrman@psln.com, YogiWannaB@aol.com, tetra@tetrahedron.org, kwame.ingemar@mailbox.calypso.net cc: glalvee@nordnet.fr, Harrold@worldaccess.nl, ajandak@centuryinter.net, Hightowr@icanect.net, KXT@aol.com, austrange@wr.com.au, Stellium69@aol.com Subject: Fwd: NY Blood Center Head Resigns Status: U --------------------- Subj: NY Blood Center Head Resigns Date: 97-07-04 06:34:34 EDT From: AOL News 
.c The Associated Press
By VERENA DOBNIK NEW YORK (AP) - The head of the nation's largest independent blood supplier has resigned amid charges his center tampered with tests for the AIDS virus and other diseases. Dr. John Adamson's resignation Thursday as president of the New York Blood Center comes during a federal investigation into allegations that some laboratory technicians may have cut corners on tests to save money. Government officials have said there is no evidence that public health is threatened. The federal Food and Drug Administration has said plenty of safeguards are in place to keep any tainted blood from reaching the public. Officials at the center have insisted its blood is free of disease. The center distributes blood to 250 hospitals covering at least 20 million people - about 10 percent of the U.S. population. It was not immediately clear why Adamson, a past president of the American Society of Hematology, had resigned. His resignation was accepted by the center's board of trustees. Adamson, the center's president and chief executive since 1989, has not been named directly in the allegations and will stay on as head of the center's biomedical research arm. A center spokeswoman would not elaborate on its statement announcing Adamson's departure and said he was unavailable for comment. The FDA has been investigating charges linked to blood processed at the center in the 1990s, through last year. In May, the center announced it would discontinue testing blood at its Manhattan lab and would screen supplies elsewhere. In a typical year, about 700,000 pints of blood are checked. The decision came six weeks after a former assistant manager of the lab was arrested on federal charges of failing to test blood properly and tampering with procedures and results. A former center manager also was indicted for allegedly tampering with tests designed to screen blood donations for HIV and hepatitis. While admitting no wrongdoing, center officials have agreed to overhaul lab and record-keeping procedures, monitor testing more strictly and upgrade training. AP-NY-07-04-97 0624EDT 
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