Docket Number:
FDA-2005-D-0013
Issued by:

Guidance Issuing Office

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

This guidance provides you, blood establishments, and FDA staff with revised recommendations for the collection of Platelets by automated methods (plateletpheresis). This guidance is intended to help you ensure donor safety and the safety, purity, and potency of Platelets collected by an automated blood cell separator device. For the purpose of this document, Platelets collected by automated methods and resuspended in plasma will be referred to by the product name “Platelets, Pheresis.”


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