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We issue < 14 day RBC units (any additive), irradiated and HgbS negative.  Our products are leukoreduced, so are CMV safe.  
Do you irradiate on site?  I was with a smaller facility that would only potentially transfuse if a transfer out was delayed and gave the freshest O neg possible as an emergency issued unit.  It sounds like maybe that is the situation you are in.  

Unless I am reading incorrectly, NOTE 1 under COM.01500 states that ungraded PT programs are acceptable:
"NOTE 1:  Appropriate alternative performance assessment procedures include participation in an external PT program not required by CAP; participation in an ungraded/educational PT program; split sample analysis with referral or other laboratories, split sample analysis with an established in-house method, use of assayed materials, clinical validation by chart review, or other suitable and documented means.  It is the responsibility of the laboratory director to define such alternative assessment procedures and the criteria for successful performance in accordance with good clinical and scientific laboratory practice."
Based on this, I would think that the J survey meets these requirements.