Waiver of Requirements Imposed on Blood Banks and Transfusion Services
Effective Jul 9, 2004MGL c. 111, §§ 3, 51 through 56, and 184BDepartment of Public Health
(A) The Commissioner may waive the applicability to a particular blood bank or transfusion service of one or more of the requirements imposed on that blood bank or transfusion service by 105 CMR 135.000 if the Commissioner finds that:
- (1) compliance would cause undue hardship; and
- (2) the blood bank or transfusion service is in substantial compliance with the spirit of the requirement; and
- (3) the blood bank's or transfusion service's non-compliance does not adversely affect the quality of the blood bank.
- (B) The blood bank or transfusion service shall provide to the Commissioner or his/her designee written documentation supporting its request for a waiver.