• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If I remember correctly even though in the United States you can sell your plasma it isn’t used for medical purposes like they claim. Instead it goes into makeup and other crap. Found out apparently it’s illegal to sell your blood and plasma for medical use. You can donate it though.

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      1 day ago

      With a solid podcast and YouTube video under my belt, you can sell it for medical purposes. The medical industry needs it. They even export it to other country’s medical systems.

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        3 hours ago

        Medical purposes in this case is manufactured blood products.

        Directly transfused blood must be volunteer donations but concentrated clotting agents and such can be made from paid plasma. The assumption was that the process introduces more safeguards but the assumption is, or was, provaby wrong.

        Technically speaking it is legal to use paid plasma for transfusion, it just needs to be marked as such, but it hardly ever happens in legitimate medical institutions.