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The public was not informed when this policy decision was being made. The story broke because the private plasma clinic, Canadian Plasma Resources, appeared beside a homeless shelter in Toronto and a journalist saw it while riding the streetcar in 2013.
“Big Pharma” of the plasma industry, the Plasma Protein & Therapeutics Association (PPTA), had lobbied the Federal Government behind closed doors in 2011. Health Canada made a decision without informing the public, doctors, nurses, patient groups, hospitals or Canadians.
The first time private paid-plasma collection and Canadian Plasma Resources was mentioned to the Board of Directors of Canadian Blood Services was in April 2013: the clinics had already been built.