University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 19, 1991 5 Red Cross to alter blood testing system The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fourteen central laboratories will take over safety testing for blood collected by the American Red Cross, replacing work now done at $3 labs, officials said yesterday. The move is a key part of a major reorganization of the Red Cross blood system prompted by more incidents in recent years of patients receiving transfusions tainted by AIDS and other blood-borne diseases. Congress. At a news conference yesterday, American Red Cross president Elizabeth Dole said the central laboratories would be the most modern possible and would replace a widely diversified testing system that had drawn criticism from the Food and Drug Administration and from members of "Rather than continue to patch a system that evolved in the 1940s, we decided to go to the state of the art," Dole said. Elizabeth Dole Dole said the Red Cross would begin converting to the central laboratories next year. The process should be complete within two years. Samples of each unit of blood collected at 52 regional blood centers will be shipped to the central labs for seven tests for blood-borne diseases. Results of the tests then will be relayed to the regional blood centers through a new computer system. The regional centers then can distribute blood units to hospitals. The central labs will be located in Boston, Rochester, N.Y., Philadelphia; Baltimore; Charlotte, N.C.; Atlanta; Miami; St. Paul, Minn.; Detroit, Cleveland; St. Louis, Tulsa, Okla.; Portland, Ore, and Los Angeles. Dole said that standards and quality control at the new labs would be tightly supervised by the national Red Cross headquarters. This should help overcome many of the problems found by the FDA in the Red Cross network, she said. 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