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Nature 398, 3 (4 March 1999) | doi:10.1038/17846
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Anomalies in French blood inquiry over 'misleading' report
Declan Butler
Documents from the mid-1980s reveal that the French agency that later carried out key investigations into the 'contaminated blood' affair was aware at the time that blood products were contaminated with HIV.Staff at the General Inspectorate for Social Affairs (IGAS) not only failed to sound the alarm, but published a report in 1985 stating — misleadingly — that French blood products were of "satisfactory quality" and "much better than previously".
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