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In 1934, the first human blood product licenses were issued to two pharmaceutical houses for human immune globulin prepared by ammonium sulfate precipitation. After the development of cold ethanol fractionation procedures, additional new products were licensed including normal human plasma (1940), normal serum albumin (1941), and immune serum globulin (1943). The first license for interstate shipment of whole blood, and the first blood bank license was issued to the Philadelphia Blood Bank in 1946. Each  Each of these products was pre-1944 products were re-licensed under Section 351 of the Public Health Services Act (1944) and was considered analogous to therapeutic serum. 

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