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The issue is trust/verification during transport. Were temp/humidity kept in check? What was the biological lot number? Model of the machine that read the biological? Temp sterilization/dry time?

Granted you could have a database and hospital customers could retrieve that information from there but what happens when they can't?

There are definitely places where the SPD process could be improved but outsourcing isn't a very handsome one.