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We do not violate the confidential nature of the information given by the husband. We would counsel the husband on the importance of relaying this information to his blood-donor wife. The wife would have a surveillance assertion applied in the computer system that would prevent any product from being distributed and initiate the discard process, should she continue to donate.

Weights used in the collection/creation of blood components have to be traceable to an NIST standard. We have a master set of weights that is sent out each October for certification. All other weights used in our facility are measured against the master set annually.

Community Blood Center/Cmmunity Tissue Services uses BacT/Alert.