621991 Blood and Organ Banks

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in collecting, storing, and distributing blood and blood products and storing and distributing body organs.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Establishments primarily engaged in providing courier and express delivery services for blood, blood products, and body organs without storage are classified in Industry 492110, Couriers and Express Delivery Services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Activities listed under 621991

The Census index assigns these 11 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Blood banks
• Blood donor stations
• Eye banks
• Human egg or ova banks
• Human embryo storage services
• Organ banks, body
• Organ donor centers, body
• Placenta banks
• Plasma collection services
• Plasmapheresis centers
• Sperm banks, human

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 621991

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 621991, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $40 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8690), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 86900Other human health activitiesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

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