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Australia’s CSL Fights US Blood Plasma Ban – The Age

The Australian biotechnology company and its peers have been fighting a ruling that banned Mexican citizens from entering the US to donate plasma.


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CSL's Broadmeadows vaccine manufacturing facility in suburban Melbourne. Photo: CSL

 

The US government is refusing to back down in a court battle with CSL over the legitimacy of Mexican blood plasma donors, insisting it was right to block non-citizens from crossing the border to visit the biotech giant’s collection centres, The Age reported.

The Australian biotechnology company and a group of its peers, including Grifols, have been fighting a ruling that banned Mexican citizens from entering the US to donate plasma. The ban disrupts their plans after plasma volumes dropped throughout the pandemic.

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George Russell

George Russell is a freelance writer and editor based in Hong Kong who has lived in Asia since 1996. His work has been published in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, New York Post, Variety, Forbes and the South China Morning Post.