Kills 99% of known germs
Journal: Transfusion
Year: 2010

In 2007 the Canadian Blood Services Consensus Conference on Pathogen Inactivation recommended that blood services move toward adopting pathogen reduction techniques for blood components as a defense against emerging transfusion-transmitted infections.1 Recently Vamvakas and Blajchman2 reviewed their six top-ranked risk reduction measures for blood services. Pathogen reduction technology (PRT) remains a high priority on their list. PRT of plasma and platelet (PLT) components is gaining momentum i