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| | Institute for Health Freedom: Why Did U.S. FDA Approve Sale of Prison Blood? |
 | | On February 24, a group of Canadians held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to ask the United States government to investigate the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of the sale of prison blood to Canada in the 1980s. |
 | | Grant Hill, M.D., a member of the Canadian Parliament, explained that a special commission was established in Canada to investigate the tainted-blood issue. |
 | | Dave Harvey, the Canadian group's attorney, announced that "On the 28th of January, we filed a $1.1 billion dollar Canadian lawsuit against the federal government, blood brokers who purchased plasma from American prisons and brought it into Canada, and the pharmaceutical company in Canada who processed it into the products that these gentlemen took. |
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