Federal Act
on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices
(Therapeutic Products Act, TPA)

¹ The hold­er of the li­cence re­ferred to in Art­icle 34 para­graph 1 must veri­fy that the donor is fit to give blood.

² Per­sons ex­cluded from donat­ing blood shall be those:

a.

whose health could suf­fer from the ex­trac­tion of blood;

b.

whose blood may trans­mit patho­gens.

^2bis The ex­clu­sion cri­ter­ia must not dis­crim­in­ate against any­one. In­so­far as the cri­ter­ia are linked to the risk be­ha­viour of per­sons who are will­ing to donate, they shall re­late to in­di­vidu­al be­ha­viour and must be sci­en­tific­ally jus­ti­fied.¹⁰¹

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall lay down the re­quire­ments re­lat­ing to the donor’s fit­ness to give blood, the com­pet­ence to es­tab­lish this fit­ness and the data which must be re­cor­ded at the time of the blood dona­tion.