California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 2 — Healing ArtsChapter 11 — Veterinary MedicineArticle 7 — Community Blood Banks for AnimalsSection 4920.6

A community blood bank operating under this article shall submit a quarterly report to the Department of Food and Agriculture every three months that includes all of the following information:

(a) The number of donations from community-sourced animals and separate total amounts of whole blood, packed red blood cells, and fresh frozen plasma sold in California during that quarter, by species of animal in estimated milliliters based on weight in grams.

(b) The number and species of animal donors experiencing adverse events, the total number of adverse events, and the nature of adverse events experienced by animals that donate blood.

(c) The number and species of animal donors that have donated blood.

(d) The number and species of animal donors whose blood tested positive for known pathogens, in accordance with the best clinical practices in the veterinary field, which may include the most recent Consensus Statement for blood donor infectious disease screening by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.

Notes

Requires a community blood bank every three months to submit a quarterly report to the Department of Food and Agriculture stating, by species, community donations and California sales volumes of specified blood products, donor adverse events and their nature, donor counts, and donors testing positive for known pathogens under best veterinary clinical practices.

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