Please advise as to the requirements for the handling of existing inventory of codabar labeled units. I am particularly interested in the relabeling requirements of processed components - thawed plasma, thawed FFP/ FP24, etc. Can these units remain labeled with Codabar or are they required to be converted to ISBT128 labeled product codes, unit numbers, etc?

We did not relabel them when we converted. It didn't take long to use them up.

We did not relabel them during our conversion either.

If you need rare frozen or deglycerolized red cells during the next 10 years, you may receive Codabar units. Basically, Codabar remains Codabar during modification; ISBT remains as ISBT.

If you receive units labeled in Codabar and they need to be modified according to AABB you can relabel them in Codabar if they are ISBT 128 and are modified they need to be relabeled in ISBT when modified.

There is no need to relabel the codabar units.

If you modify a unit that is in Codabar you relabel in Codabar. If you modify or pool products labeled in ISBT you relabel in ISBT.