Seroplasm
The Seroplas Society of Plasma Science and plasma collection GmbH was a plasmapheresis -Unternehmen. Seroplas belonged to Hoechst between 1976 and 1992 . After the merger of Hoechst AG with Rhône-Poulenc , Seroplas was renamed Aventis Bio-Services (Seroplas) GmbH. The pharmaceutical division of Aventis is now part of Sanofi .
history
Seroplas was founded in 1971, a plasmapheresis was opened in Vienna in the same year. In 1977 the plasma donation center was closed due to orders from the health authorities and legal changes.
From 1972 the German Green Cross was the main shareholder, in 1976 the company was taken over by Hoechst.
Hepatitis scandal
In the 1990s, the company was involved in a plasma donation scandal in Austria. Patients were infected with hepatitis. In 2001 the process ended with a settlement. The 259 infected received 7.5 million euros (around 100 million ATS ), but originally they wanted to sue for 75 million euros (around 1 billion schillings).
Web links
- Hepatitis lawyer wants to sue hygiene experts. standard.at, January 17, 2002 (accessed May 5, 2015).
- Viennese hepatitis lawyer wants compensation from a former expert: action for 98 million schillings. wienerzeitung.at, April 6, 2005 (accessed May 5, 2015).
- Udo Ludwig: Donors from the pub. In: Der Spiegel , November 20, 2000 (accessed May 5, 2015).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plasma process becomes a mega process. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Der Standard , November 8, 1999 (accessed May 5, 2015).
- ↑ Birgit Wittstock: A company messes up, the republic pays. In: Die Zeit , March 13, 2008 (accessed May 5, 2015).
