This commentary is written to respond to recent publications on the storage of whole blood aroom temperature for 24 hours prior to leukoreduction and storage of plasma at less than -18 C for one year and red blood cells stored at 4 C in Additive Solution 7 for 42 and 56 days and blood stored at room temperature for less than 2 hours and 6 to 8 hours prior to storage of RBC in the Additive Solution 7 for 42 and 56 days. The authors of these 3 papers provided no data on the sterility of these blood products. In addition, the 24 hour posttransfusion survival values of autologous red blood cell stored at 4 C in the additive solution AS-7 for 42 and 56 days were performed using a 51Cr single label procedure. Introduction