The American Association of Blood Banks Inspection and Accreditation Program for Parentage Testing Laboratories

Abstract

The Parentage Testing Inspection and Accreditation (PT-I&A) Program of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) was conceived and created by the AABB Committee on Parentage Testing in 1984. Although implementation of the program was originally the responsibility of the Parentage Testing Committee, in 1993 the AABB Board of Directors separated the PT-I&A program from the committee and merged it with the AABB National I&A Program for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services which is where it remains today.