Draft Guidance for Industry and FDA Review Staff on Collection of Platelets by Automated Methods; Availability

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft document entitled "Guidance for Industry and FDA Review Staff: Collection of Platelets by Automated Methods" dated September 2005. The draft guidance provides blood establishments and FDA staff revised recommendations for the collection of Platelets by automated methods (plateletpheresis). The draft guidance is intended to help blood establishments ensure donor safety and the safety, purity, and potency of Platelets collected by an automated blood cell separator device. For the purpose of this document, Platelets collected by automated methods will be referred to by the product name "Platelets, Pheresis." The draft guidance contains recommendations for appropriate criteria for a biologics license application or supplement for manufacturing Platelets, Pheresis. When finalized, this draft guidance will replace the October 1988 "Revised Guideline for the Collection of Platelets, Pheresis."