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Exhibit 231

Infected Blood Inquiry: Volume 3, What Happened and Why?

Exhibit 231 · Public inquiry report

Infected Blood Inquiry: Volume 3, What Happened and Why?

Competitive mass production led to commercial products being manufactured in the US and in Europe from pools which consisted of several thousand individual donations (“large pool concentrates”).

Examines contemporaneous knowledge of infection risks and the increase in plasma pool sizes used for factor concentrates.

Source
Infected Blood Inquiry, Sir Brian Langstaff
Date
20 May 2024
Quoted from
Volume 3, early chapter on blood products (PDF p. 43)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/sites/default/files/Volume_3.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Chapters 3.5–3.8 and 3.15; especially printed pp. 458–466.

Cited by

Finding MED-13.1
Primary record The 2024 Infected Blood Inquiry concluded that the British treatment disaster was largely avoidable and attributed more than 3,000 deaths to infected blood, blood products, and tissue.