11.   Other materials include recommendations from doctors and hemophiliac patient groups in the United States that unheated blood products not be used.

12.   A leading hemophilia expert was formally charged Wednesday with professional negligence for giving unheated blood to a hemophiliac patient who later died of AIDS.

13.   Abe is accused of having influenced the ministry at the time to agree to the continued use of unheated blood products.

14.   During those days, emerging plans to ban use of unheated blood products were mysteriously scrapped.

15.   Last week, prosecutors began a criminal investigation of pharmaceutical giant Green Cross Corp., which is accused of ignoring evidence about the danger of unheated blood products.

16.   On Wednesday, Tokyo prosecutors formally charged Abe with professional negligence for giving unheated blood to a hemophiliac patient who later died of AIDS.

17.   Some documents from the period released by the government indicate the companies were also worried about losses if they had to throw out their stocks of unheated blood products.

18.   The hemophiliacs said the government continued to allow use of unheated blood products in Japan after it already knew that heat-treating killed the AIDS virus.

19.   The risks of AIDS were unclear then, he said, and a mass recall of unheated blood products could have made treatment for hemophiliacs impossible.

20.   They claimed the government continued to allow use of unheated blood products in Japan after it already knew that heat-treating killed the AIDS virus.