by Rae | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog
Reports of biotin interference with laboratory tests are alarming. Biotin binds to streptavidin with high affinity, making the biotin-streptavidin system useful for immunoassays; however, elevated concentrations of biotin can interfere. In competitive assays,...
by Rae | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog
You have likely read method performance information with an arbitrary acceptance criterion e.g. plus or minus 10%. This is unfortunate because different measurands differ in the magnitude of error that impacts clinical decision making. Troponin, for example, needs to...
by Rae | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has made valuable recommendations for interference testing in document EP07. We created Excel spreadsheets, designed specifically to follow CLSI recommendations and to help simplify the process. The cells...
by Rae | Nov 12, 2019 | Blog
Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) provides important guidance for interference testing.1 Many laboratorians find the CLSI document difficult to follow, which is why we have developed simple instructions and Excel Interference Worksheets to make...
by Rae | Jan 7, 2019 | News | In Vitro Diagnostics Testing Kits
Sun Diagnostics simplifies interference testing with the ASSURANCE™ product line. We are pleased to announce an important change to improve the performance of lipemia testing with our triglyceride-rich lipoprotein material (INT-01T). Lipemia is best assessed with...
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