In contrast, only 10 percent of the independent blood centers were found to have similar violations.

Since retiring, she helps out the blood center four or five times a month.

Once the test is licensed, most blood centers could begin using it within a few weeks.

It was through the blood center that she learned the awful news.

And he said that the decision could inspire other people to sue blood centers in their own states.

On all these matters, the decision is out of the blood center's hands.

Donations are done in a blood center or hospital.

The laboratory will close within 60 to 90 days, but the blood center itself will stay open.

Officials with the blood center denied these allegations in a written response to the magazine.

Several calls late yesterday to the blood center's headquarters yielded no answer.