Container Qualification SOP (Development, design, & writing)

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was developed to provide a comprehensive system and a prescriptive method to ensure that the performance of all transport containers used to maintain blood or cellular products were adequately qualified in the manner that they would be used in day-to-day operations. Prior to the development of this SOP, there was no procedure addressing either the specific requirements for container qualification or the methods of performing a container qualification.
Two other SOPs were developed to address special circumstances. One SOP described a method of compiling retrospective quality control data to meet the qualification requirement. The other SOP described the process of extending the qualification of a container to additional, "substantially equivalent" uses of the container. Both of these SOPs included descriptions of the specific requirements as well as forms to compile the data and document approval.
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