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News Release from: Alpha Laboratories | Subject: Albacheck-BGS
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 27 February 2003
Assessing competency within the blood
bank
The principles of GLP are particularly important in high risk activities like blood transfusion, making this assessment kit particularly helpful to users of automated blood grouping instruments
Blood transfusion is a high risk business, which is why is it one of the most regulated disciplines within biomedical science The blood bank must be equipped to adopt good laboratory practice (GLP)
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 14 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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CPA accreditation is an essential part of fulfilling of GLP.
However to achieve accreditation status, laboratories must ensure that their procedures are sensitive, reliable, and robust, that measures are in place to train and assess staff competence and proficiency, and that they regularly control the sensitivity of their techniques and equipment.
The Albacheck-BGS products from Alpha Laboratories are aimed at helping labs to ensure GLP.
With a wide choice of sensitivity controls, phenotyped red cells are available, the unique whole blood control has a growing acceptance among users of automated blood grouping instruments.
These ready to use controls are presented as four vials with ABO and RhD grouping selected in consultation with laboratories to offer the most suitable combination, including the addition of anti-Kell.
The Internal Proficiency Kit has just been launched as a complementary product.
The kit offers a set of 20 randomly selected samples containing weak blood group antibodies plus a disk containing the specificity of each sample.
Ideal for assessing the ability of an individual or a particular technology in detecting weak antibodies.
The laboratory or QC manager has the freedom to decide on the frequency and number of sample to be tested and to check the results immediately.
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