Selection criteria may be adjusted at the request of the customer depending on the intended use of the product and the customer’s requirements, provided that subject safety requirements are met. At the customer’s request, subjects with a history of travel or medication ingestion that would preclude them from providing a blood product suitable for transfusion may provide plasma for non-clinical and non-injectable uses.

We also offer qualification samples on potential subjects to allow the end-user to determine suitability for targeted materials. Specific subjects may be requested for product collection. Subjects may donate as often as once a month and up to 12 times in any 12-month period.

Subjects are prescreened for evidence of transmissible infectious diseases with the standard panel of tests used to screen blood products for transfusion acceptability. This panel of tests is usually repeated with each collected product.

Products are collected on the Haemonetics PCS^®2 collection system. Product volume is usually 600mL or 800mL.

Specific subjects may be selected from our database based on:

• Blood type
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• BMI

Optional pre-collection qualification screening is available:

• Recent medication usage

Packaging and Shipment

In alignment with the intended use of the product and the customer’s requirements, plasmaphereses can be packaged and shipped on the date of collection for overnight delivery. Most products are frozen prior to shipment.

Products are packaged in a manner that ensures maintenance of a temperature defined by the customer. Frozen products are shipped on dry ice.