GENERAL PROVISIONS
§ 30.1. Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Act—The Pennsylvania Blood Bank Act (35 P. S. § § 6501—6523).
Blood bank—Any place, organization, institution or establishment that is operated wholly or in part for the purpose of obtaining, collecting, storing, processing, preparing for transfusing, or selling human blood or parts or fractions of single blood units or products derived from single blood units, including pools of such single units, whether such procedures are done for direct therapeutic use or for storage for future therapeutic or diagnostic use of such products and whether a place, organization, institution, or establishment is operated on a charitable, commercial, or nonprofit basis.
Blood product—Any part or fraction of single units of whole human blood, including pools of such single units, or any material derived from single units, including pools of such single units, of such blood which is subsequently prepared for the purpose of administration to human subjects.
Collection—The obtaining of human blood by the bleeding of donors by a phlebotomy or plasmapheresis.
Department—The Department of Health of the Commonwealth.
Distribution—The removal of blood and blood products from a blood bank to any other location for processing or storage for the purpose of providing the blood for diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic purposes.
Licensee—A person holding a license under the provisions of the act and this chapter.
Person—Any natural person, partnership, association, corporation, institution, agency, or other similar entity.
Processing—The standard technical procedures used to prepare blood and blood products, methods of identification, tests for suitability for intended purpose, and performance of tests for communicable diseases.
Screening of donors—The evaluation of prospective donors by the blood bank to determine the acceptability of the donor by evaluating his past medical history, his present state of health, and laboratory studies.
Secretary—The Secretary of the Department.
Storage—The holding of blood and blood products for subsequent distribution and use.
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