Parker v. State of New York

Following the close of the last war quantities of dried blood plasma which had been collected from donors by the American Bed Cross for the armed services were declared surplus property by the Government and turned back to the Bed Cross to distribute for charitable purposes under the authority of a Federal statute.

The dried plasma had been stored in 500 c.c.'containers. This quantity of plasma in each container had been processed from the whole blood of from ten to fifty different donors, and was thus known as “ pooled plasma ”.

The Bed Cross requested the various States to undertake the free…