Report from Brazil: First National Plasma Fractionation Plant Developed

Jo�o Geraldo Ferreira, president and CEO of GE Brasil , announced at the end of 2010 that Brazil was prepared to host high investments. Ferreira's optimism for Brazil is based on the country's positive outlook for the near future as it prepares to stage the World Soccer Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016.

To meet the growing demand for quality drugs, blood byproducts, and vaccines and the call from the World Health Organization's (WHO) that all countries have their own blood byproduct and vaccine [or blood-derived products] production, the S�o Paulo State government has built a human blood plasma facility using GE Healthcare technology.

The unit will operate under …