AEGiS-Chicago Tribune: Baxter recalls tainted product

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Baxter recalls tainted product

Chicago Tribune - July 24, 2001
Tribune staff and wire reports

Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. said it has recalled one lot of a product that hospitals use to treat burn victims and patients in shock after a test found a rare form of HIV in the plasma used to make the product. "This is being recalled for quality reasons, not safety reasons," said spokeswoman Tanya Tyska. She said evaluation using an experimental test for HIV-2 detected low levels of the virus in the plasma pool used to make the product, known as Albumin Buminate 5 percent. HIV-2 is rare in the United States.

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