Section 9212 - Licensing of captive closed-colony commercial blood banks for animalsThe secretary shall license establishments as captive closed-colony commercial blood banks for animals that meet all of the following:
(a)Operate under conditions, and use methods of production, that are consistent with current standards of care and practice for the field of veterinary transfusion medicine to ensure that the animal blood and blood component products will not be contaminated, dangerous, or harmful.(b)Produce animal blood and blood component products under the direct supervision of a person qualified in the field.(c)Maintain onsite records containing information documenting how the animal was acquired and any history of blood draws or use of anesthesia on the animal.(d)Keep, house, or maintain all animal donors within California state boundaries.Ca. Food and Agric. Code § 9212
Amended by Stats 2021 ch 752 (AB 1282),s 12, eff. 1/1/2022.Amended by Stats 2010 ch 235 (AB 1709),s 11, not operative until the first day on or after January 1, 2013, that all California biological products, as defined in Section 101.2 of Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations, registered with the Department of Food and Agriculture by December 31, 2010, have obtained a United States Veterinary Biological Product License from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Center for Veterinary Biologics except those products for which the Department of Food and Agriculture has received written documentation from a firm that the firm has chosen not to obtain that license. However, new registrations of biologics will not be processed by the Department of Food and Agriculture after December 31, 2010. When this act becomes operative, the Department of Food and Agriculture shall post that fact on its Internet Web site.Amended by Stats 2002 ch 822 (SB 1345),s 2, eff. 1/1/2003.