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The Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) is introducing nationwide pre-storage leucodepletion of red cell components. This will bring red cell components in line with platelet components which have been leucodepleted nationally since April 2008. The implementation of pre-storage leucodepletion of 100% of red cells by ARCBS is now complete.
