Ordinance
on Licensing in the Medicinal Products Sector
(Medicinal Products Licensing Ordinance, MPLO)

¹ The suit­ab­il­ity of blood donors must be eval­u­ated by a qual­i­fied phys­i­cian with ex­per­i­ence in trans­fu­sion medi­cine or by a per­son trained in this as­sess­ment who is work­ing un­der the su­per­vi­sion of a qual­i­fied phys­i­cian.

² The donors must be provided with com­pre­hens­ive in­form­a­tion about donat­ing blood and the risks of in­fec­tion with ma­jor patho­gens must be ex­plained be­fore the blood dona­tion so that they can de­cide not to donate blood if the blood they donate could rep­res­ent a risk of in­fec­tion for third parties.

³ Oth­er­wise, the in­form­a­tion provided in the con­text of a dona­tion is guided by An­nex 5 num­ber 3.

⁴ Per­sons in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies are not per­mit­ted to donate blood:

a.

those who have been dia­gnosed with HIV;

b.

those who are suf­fer­ing from AIDS or who have symp­toms in­dic­at­ive of an AIDS-re­lated ill­ness;

c.

those whose be­ha­viour car­ries the risk of in­fec­tion with HIV;

d.

in­tim­ate part­ners of per­sons de­scribed un­der let­ters a–c;

e.

those who carry a spe­cif­ic risk of pri­on in­fec­tion;

f.

those who have re­ceived trans­plant ma­ter­i­al of an­im­al ori­gin.

⁵ Oth­er­wise, donor suit­ab­il­ity is eval­u­ated in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 5 num­ber 1.