1.   Blood Transfusion Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood is not accepted from high risk individuals.

2.   A hospital nurse called Statline in Denver, Colo., the national organization used locally to screen potential donors.

3.   FDA inspectors say Washington State Tissue Services also failed to adequately screen donors for human immunodeficiency virus, the AIDS virus.

4.   It can be used only for diagnostic purposes, not to screen blood donors.

5.   The DiPaolos question whether the surgery should have been postponed and whether the New York Blood Center, which supplied the blood, did enough to screen donors.

6.   Milk donors are screened in the same way that blood donors are.

7.   The blood bank was not bothering to screen donors.

8.   The blood banks and FDA were criticized for not finding better ways to screen donors earlier.

9.   The proposed new regulations would force all doctors, clinics and sperm banks in Canada to follow a list of procedures and tests to screen anonymous donors.

10.   Transplant regulators who use medical and psychiatric tests to screen donors find the job trickier in the absence of a genetic or emotional link.