Any blood establishment collecting blood and its components, which prepares labile blood products intended for the preparation of intermediate products or medicinal products derived from blood, is required to apply the tests and analyses referred to in 4° and in b, c, d, e, g and h of 5° of article D. 1221-6 to the corresponding samples.
Blood or its components may only be used for the purposes mentioned in the previous paragraph if the results of the screening tests referred to in b, c, d, e, g and h of 5° of Article D. 1221-6 are negative.
However, by way of derogation from the provisions of the previous paragraph, an order of the Minister for Health may authorise the use of samples for which the result of the anti-HBc antibody detection test is positive, for the preparation of intermediary products and medicinal products, provided that these antibodies are combined with anti-HBs antibodies.