S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-80.F

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 10, October 25, 2024

Section 61-80.F - Storage of Specimen

1. Hospital staff or other persons who collect blood specimens for the purpose of screening for inborn metabolic errors and hemoglobinopathies shall inform each child's parent or legal guardian of the blood specimen storage options.

2. Hospital staff or other persons who collect these blood specimens shall give the brochure produced by the Department that explains newborn screening for inborn metabolic errors and hemoglobinopathies to the parent or legal guardian as a means of informing them of the benefits of screening and blood specimen storage. Hospital staff or other persons who collect these blood specimens shall indicate that the brochure was given to the parent or legal guardian by documenting in the appropriate space on the Blood Sample Storage Options Form.

3. The Laboratory shall store all specimens at minus 20° Centigrade and may release specimens for purposes of confidential, anonymous scientific study unless prohibited by the parents, legal guardians, or children from whom the specimens were obtained when the children are eighteen years of age or older.

4. Hospital staff or other persons who collect these specimens shall ensure that the parent's or legal guardian's storage choice is documented on the Blood Sample Storage Options form if the parent or legal guardian does not agree to have their child's blood specimen stored and potentially released for confidential, anonymous scientific study. In these instances, the Laboratory shall maintain all such specimens based upon the storage option chosen by the parent or legal guardian as documented on the Blood Sample Storage Options form.

S.C. Code Regs. § 61-80.F