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Laboratory equipment: (i) Refrigerators, for storing diagnostic kits and reagents, maintaining a temperature between 4 to 6 degree centigrade (plus/minus 2 degrees centigrade) with digital dial thermometer having provision for continuous power supply. (ii) Compound Microscope with low and high power objectives. (iii) Centrifuge Table Model. (iv) Water bath: having range between 37 degree centigrade to 56 degree centigrade. (v) Rh viewing box in case of slide technique. (vi) Incubator with thermostatic control. (vii) Mechanical shakers for serological tests for Syphilis. (viii) Hand-lens for observing tests conducted in tubes. (ix) Serological graduated pipettes of various sizes. (x) Pipettes (Pasteur). (xi) Glass slides. Drugs and Cosmetics Rules 1945 312 (xii) Test tubes of various sizes / micrometer plates (U or V type). (xiii) Precipitating tubes 6mm x 50mm of different sizes and glass beakers of different sizes. (xiv) Test tube racks of different specifications. (xv) Interval timer electric or spring wound. (xvi) Equipment and materials for cleaning glass wares adequately. (xvii) Insulated containers for transporting blood, between 2 degree centigrade to 10 degree centigrade temperatures, to wards and hospitals. (xviii) Wash bottles. (xix) Filter papers. (xx) Dielectric tube sealer. (xxi) Plain and EDTA vials. (xxii) Chemical balance (wherever necessary). (xxiii) ELISA reader with printer, washer and micropipettes. J. SPECIAL REAGENTS : (1) Standard blood grouping sera Anti A, Anti B and Anti D with known controls. Rh typing sera shall be in double quantity and each of different brand or if from the same supplier each supply shall be of different lot numbers. (2) Reagents for serological tests for syphilis and positive sera for controls. (3) Anti Human Globulin Serum (Coomb‘s serum). (4) Bovine Albumin 22 percent Enzyme reagents for incomplete antibodies. 1[(5) ELISA or RPHA test kits for Hepatitis and HIV I & II. (6) Detergent and other agents for cleaning laboratory glass wares. K. TESTING OF WHOLE BLOOD : (1) It shall be responsibility of the licensee to ensure that the whole blood collected, processed and supplied conforms to the standards laid down in the Indian Pharmacopoeia and other tests published, if any, by the Government. (2) Freedom from HIV antibodies (AIDS) Tests. – Every licensee shall get samples of every blood unit tested, before use, for freedom from HIV 1 and HIV II antibodies either from laboratories specified for the purpose by the Central Government or in his own laboratory. The results of such testing shall be recorded on the label of the container. (3) Each blood unit shall also be tested for freedom from 2[(Hepatitis B surface antigen and Hepatitis C Virus antibody)] VDRL and malarial parasite and results of such testing shall be recorded on the label of the container. NOTES (a) Blood samples of donors in pilot tube and the blood samples of the Recipient shall be preserved for 7 days after issue. (b) The blood intended for transfusion shall not be frozen at any stage. (c) Blood containers shall not come directly in contact with ice at any stage.