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Plasma is a key raw material of the blood product industry. In August 2011, China shut down 16 plasma stations in Guizhou, resulting in a decrease of 15% in the plasma volume of the year. However, due to the implementation of favorable policies, widening gap between supply and demand, rising product prices and other factors, more than 150 plasma stations in China produced about 3,600 tons of plasma in 2012, up 14.2% year on year. From 2012 to mid-2013, new plasma stations of some Chinese enterprises have started plasma collection or obtained plasma collection permits, such as Yuechi plasma station of Jiangxi Boya Bio-Pharmaceutical, Changyuan plasma station of Hualan Bio, and Caoxian plasma station of China Biologic Products. It’s expected that China’s plasma supply tension will be further eased after 2013.
According to the lot release statistics of National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, in the first ten months of 2012, China’s total lot release volume of blood products was about 36.13 million bottles, an increase of 7.1% compared with the full year of 2011. In addition, except human coagulation factor VIII with a decreased lot release volume, other products saw growing release volume. In particular, human immunoglobulin, tetanus immunoglobulin, human fibrinogen, imported human serum albumin witnessed higher growth rates of 321%, 95%, 79%, 45% respectively in the first ten months of 2012. However, Chinese blood product enterprises have weak R&D capability, low plasma utilization and fewer product varieties. The domestic market is still dominated by technically undemanding human serum albumin and human immunoglobulin (ph4) for intravenous injection, which accounted for more than 60% of the lot release volume in 2012.
