INTERCEPT Safety Evaluation in Anemic Patients

The pathogen reduction process begins with a unit of whole blood collected according to local standards and procedures at the blood center. The blood unit is treated with amustaline and glutathione (INTERCEPT blood system for whole blood) according to manufacturer's instructions. The INTERCEPT blood system is performed on a single unit of not leuco-reduced whole blood treated with amustaline and glutathione in CPD

The control article is Standard of Care, either RBC or whole blood collected by the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine (CNTS), processed according to the local procedure and in compliance with quality criteria defined by the manufacture regarding the volume, hemoglobin content, hematocrit, storage temperature, age of blood and storage in the predefined anticoagulant solution.