Becton Dickinson BD Bactec Platelet Quality Control Media

Becton Dickinson launched its BD Bactec platelet quality control media, which allows microbilogy laboratories, blood banks, and transfusion services to identify contaminated platelet units, and reduce the risk of sepsis. The product is part of a package from BD leveraging the BD Bactec FX technology and BD Synapsys microbiology informatics solution to help labs meet culture-based platelet testing requirements. The BD Bactec platelet is FDA cleared and CE-IVD marked, and can be used for QC testing of leukocyte-reduced aspheresis platelet units, and both leukocyte-reduced single and a pool of up to six units of leukocyte-reduced whole-blood platelet concentrates, the firm said.