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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2014 Jan 25;165(1):3–16. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12747

Table I.

Examples for RBC storage times currently approved and applied depending on the additive solution

Additive solution* and shelf life (days)
Country
Approved Applied in clinical service
49 days 49 days Germany and Switzerland1
49 days 42 days Germany1
42 days 42 days Canada, China, Malaysia, and USA;2 Thailand;2,3 Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Saudi-Arabia, Switzerland, Spain, and Tunisia3
42 days 35 days China;2,3,4 Netherlands and United Kingdom (uniform for the countries);3 Germany (large blood services for >20 years)3
42 days 21 days Japan4
35 days 35 days Brazil, China, Ethiopia, India, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, and Tunisia5
21 days 21 days China and Saudi-Arabia (few blood services)6
*

1PAGGS-M (phosphate-adenine-glucose-guanosin-saline-mannitol, 285 mOsm/l isotonic): approved for a shelf life of 49 days; 2AS-3 (saline-adenine-glucose-citrate-phosphate): 42 days; 3SAGM (saline-adenine-glucose-mannitol, 376 mOsm/L hypertonic): 42 days; 4MAP (mannitol-adenine-phosphate): 42 days;;; 5CPDA-1 ( citrate-phosphate-dextrose-adenine): 35 days; 6CPD (citrate-phosphate-dextrose): 21 days.