Blood establishments, health establishments and health cooperation groups authorised to store labile blood products intended for therapeutic use must have a procedure for withdrawing any unit of such products from the circuit.
An order by the Minister for Health sets the conditions under which health establishments may store in their departments labile blood products issued, with a view to a transfusion procedure, by their referral blood establishment or by the blood depot of the establishment or health cooperation group of which they are a member.
An order by the Minister for Defence and the Minister for Health determines the conditions under which the departments of health establishments and the structures mentioned in 2° of article R. 6123-1 may store lyophilised plasma made available by their blood establishment or by their referral blood establishment, with a view to an emergency transfusion procedure. The aforementioned order also defines the conditions under which the traceability of the product is ensured after administration to the patient, in order to guarantee the safety of the transfusion procedure.