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NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 3) which is identical with ISO 3826-3 : 2008 ‘Plastics collapsible containers for human blood and blood components - Part 3: Blood bag systems with integrated features’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Hospital Equipment and Surgical Disposable Products Sectional Committee and approval of the Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning Division Council.

This standard was earlier published as IS 15102 : 2002 by adopting ISO 3832 : 1993 identically under dual number. On revision of ISO 3826 in three parts, the committee also decided to adopt this standard under a single number series as IS/ISO to make pace with the latest international practice. On publication, these three parts supersede IS 15102 : 2002 ‘Plastics collapsible containers for human blood and blood components’.

This standard is published in three parts. Other two parts in this series are:

Part 1 Conventional containers

Part 2 Graphical symbols for use on labels and instruction leaflets

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are however not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.