A bill to amend the antitrust laws to provide that the refusal of nonprofit blood banks and of hospitals and physicians to obtain blood and blood plasma from other blood banks shall not be deemed to be acts in restraint of trade.

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Declares that it shall not be deemed to be an act in restraint of trade under any law of the United States for any nonprofit blood bank, nonprofit reservoir of other human tissue or organs, any hospital, or any physicians to refuse, or to join together with others in refusing, to obtain from or to accept delivery, from any other blood bank or reservoir, of blood, blood plasma, other tissue or organs, nor shall their interstate shipment be deemed to constitute trade or commerce in commodities.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 27 February 1973

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