Pharmacovigilance of blood-derived medicinal products involves monitoring, known as traceability, from the time they are manufactured until they are administered to patients.
The purpose of this monitoring is, in particular, to enable rapid identification of :
1° The blood samples from which a given batch of medicinal products was manufactured, and the batches of medicinal products manufactured from given blood samples;
2° The batches from which the medicinal products administered to a patient originate and the patients to whom medicinal products from a batch have been administered.
Monitoring is ensured by the completion of the formalities set out in this paragraph. Where automated data processing is used for this purpose, the processing methods must be approved by the Minister for Health, without prejudice to the provisions of law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to data processing, files and freedoms.