Labelling

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All blood and blood components must be labelled according to
regulatory specifications. Labelling may occur:

  • at the time of collection
  • during component preparation
  • at the time of release into Canadian Blood Services inventory
  • in hospital transfusion services following product manipulations such as pooling or splitting

Additional information on the ISBT 128 labelling system used in for labeling blood products in Canada.

Updated: November 2011