Plasma procurement world-wide.
World-wide, at least 75 million units of whole blood are collected annually. Of this amount, over 90% are collected in Europe, in the Americas and in Western Pacific. If all the blood were separated into components, there would be close to 14 million liters of plasma available for fractionation. Presently, only about 6 million liters of it are processed further. It is supplemented by 8 million liters of source plasma collected by plasmapheresis. Over 60% of source plasma comes from paid donors in U.S. Non-profit organizations fractionate 30% and commercial companies 70% of the total of 14 million liters of blood plasma. Of this, 42% are fractionated in Europe and 47% in North America.
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Finnish Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Helsinki, Finland.
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