In April 1991, the doctor and journalist Anne-Marie Casteret [fr] published an article in the French weekly magazine the L'Événement du jeudi showing that the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine [fr][citation needed] knowingly distributed blood products contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs in 1984 and 1985,[1] leading to an outbreak of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C in numerous countries.
[4] Other impacted countries include Canada, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and the United Kingdom.
On January 8, 1985, multi-national health care company Abbott Laboratories sought authorisation to sell equipment needed for blood testing.
Response to the demand was delayed as the government was waiting for a rival French test to be released.
It requires regulators to be more transparent, and also to take more precautionary measures in European countries,[12] even in unlikely hazards like the risk of mobile radiations.