Ontario is moving to become only the second province in Canada to ban payments for blood and plasma, but the Toronto-based business that is the target of the proposed law intends to begin limited collection of plasma next week regardless.
The provincial Liberal government announced Friday that it would introduce legislation making it illegal to provide any compensation, including reimbursing expenses, to people who give blood and plasma, the pale-yellow liquid that surrounds the cells in blood.
Paid donations are almost unheard of in Canada. No clinics pay for whole blood and just one, in Winnipeg, pays for plasma.
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