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O.C.G.A. § 31-22-5 — Methods for selection of blood donors and collection, storage, and processing of human blood | Georgia Code
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TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 22. Clinical Laboratories, 31-22-1 through 31-22-13.

ARTICLE 3 OFFENSES

31-22-5. Methods for selection of blood donors and collection, storage, and processing of human blood.

  1. Those clinical laboratories which provide a system for the collection, processing, or storage of human blood and its component parts shall provide methods for the selection of blood donors as well as methods for the collection, storage, processing, and transfusion of blood, which shall ensure that the blood donation will not be detrimental to the donor and to protect the ultimate recipient of human blood or any of its component parts from infectious disease known to be transmissible by blood.
  2. The methods described in subsection (a) of this Code section shall conform to the most recent "Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services" published by the American Association of Blood Banks; provided, however, that the board may modify the standards published by the American Association of Blood Banks by adopting separate or supplementary rules and regulations to ensure that the blood donation will not be detrimental to the donor and will protect the ultimate recipient of human blood or any of its component parts from diseases known to be transmissible by blood.

(Ga. L. 1972, p. 1247, § 2.)

Cross references.

- Inapplicability of implied warranties to injection, transfusion, or other transfer of blood, blood plasma, or transplanting of tissue, bones, or organs, §§ 11-2-316,51-1-28.

Age at which person may donate blood without consent of parent or guardian, § 44-5-89.

Administrative Rules and Regulations.

- Blood labeling, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Human Resources (now the Department of Community Health for these purposes), Public Health, Chapter 290-5-34.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Sanders v. Colquitt County Hosp. Auth., 180 Ga. App. 58, 348 S.E.2d 490 (1986).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Liability of hospital, physician, or other individual medical practitioner for injury or death resulting from blood transfusion, 20 A.L.R.4th 136.

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