Question 1214 — human blood and organs

Summary

Mr. Régis Juanico questions the Minister of Solidarity and Health about the ban on blood transfusion recipients being able to donate blood. In France, the definitive exclusion of transfused subjects from donating blood was implemented on September 30, 1997 (circular DGS/DH/AFS no. 97/662 taken after the opinion of the transfusion safety committee issued in February 1996). This measure, based on the precautionary principle, aimed to break preventively any possible chain of transmission between people receiving biological products of human origin and to eliminate its possible consequences at the collective level. It was maintained in the 2000s to take into account the context of the variant epidemic of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and the risk of diseases with a long exposure period. For other countries, the contraindications vary. Some countries have decided to exclude transfused people from donation completely or temporarily depending on the country or geographical areas in which the transfusion was carried out. Other countries such as Belgium or Germany apply a contraindication of only 4 months. The problem of excluding transfused people from donating blood has not been reopened at the level of European authorities for a long time, the In 2016, the government planned to ask the European Union and other European states to assess the conditions for launching a collective reassessment of the contraindication to blood donation for transfused or transplanted people. Also, he would like to know the European Union's response to this request from France and under what conditions France could return to temporary exclusion, while respecting the precautionary principle, for people who have been transfused.

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