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PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT – RF Interferents
Sun Diagnostics simplifies interference testing with the ASSURANCE™ product line. We are pleased to announce a change to the fill volume for the...
Effect of Hemolysis on Laboratory Tests
Effect of Hemolysis on Laboratory Tests Hemolysis is the breakdown of red blood cells and the resulting release of hemoglobin, potassium, and other...
Assay Interference: A Brief Review and Helpful Hints
Assay Interference: A Brief Review and Helpful Hints (download here) Sun Diagnostics, LLC New Gloucester, Maine Laboratory Directors and...
Intralipid® Is Not Adequate for Interference Testing
Intralipid® Is Not Adequate for Interference Testing Lipemia is best defined as turbidity in a sample caused by elevated triglycerides, mostly as...
SunDx Lp(a) Particle Number ELISA overcomes isoform size bias
Check out this white paper from Sun Diagnostics to learn why most lipoprotein(a) assays [Lp(a)] cannot accurately measure Lp(a) particle number...
The Importance of Independent, Third-Party Quality Controls
You probably have not put as much thought into the clinical importance of independent, 3rd party quality control as Dr. Sonntag which is why we...
A Useful Spreadsheet For Determining Limits Of Blank And Limits Of Detection
CLSI teaches us that it is important to know the difference between a “true” quantity of a substance and an individual measurement result. In other...
Biotin Interference Testing Material and a Rapid Biotin Microtiter Plate Assay
Reports of biotin interference with laboratory tests are alarming. Biotin binds to streptavidin with high affinity, making the biotin-streptavidin...
Total Analytical Error and Total Allowable Error: Important Concepts for Clinical Laboratories and a Useful List of Recommendations
You have likely read method performance information with an arbitrary acceptance criterion e.g. plus or minus 10%. This is unfortunate because...
An Excel Spreadsheet to Help with Interference Experiments
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has made valuable recommendations for interference testing in document EP07. We created Excel...
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