Fatty festival fare leads to blood rejections

Sample testing reveals donors' greasy diets

BEIJING - The greasy diet enjoyed by many Spring Festival revelers was the culprit being blamed this year for a rise in the amount of blood donations that had to be rejected.

In one instance, nearly 50 percent of the blood collected in a vehicle parked outside the Hualian shopping center, near the North Third Ring Road in Beijing, was disqualified through testing. The reason behind the rejections: The donors had ingested excessive amounts of fatty festival fare.