copied from Janet Anscombe's site:

[color=#555555]After yet another call from regional health authorities for blood donations, it is worth clarifying that many British donors cannot heed the call because Spain, due to fears about CJD, has rules forbidding anyone (British or not) to donate blood if they were in the UK for more than twelve months (consecutively or in total) between January 1980 and December 1996, the period in which meat was not controlled. These rules are also in place in othe