Packed Red Blood Cells

HemaCare (a Charles River Company) provides packed red blood cell products for research and development purposes collected from donors who are screened in the same manner as donors who intend to donate for transfusion purposes in the U.S. We use FDA-approved viral marker panel testing and screening with the AABB’s uniform donor history questionnaire (DHQ). Approximately 200 mL packed red blood cell units are processed from whole blood units that are collected either in the client’s choice of CPD or CPDA-1 anticoagulant.