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Effect of Hemolysis on Laboratory Tests

by Rae | May 23, 2023 | Blog, News | In Vitro Diagnostics Testing Kits

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

by Rae | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog, News | In Vitro Diagnostics Testing Kits, Uncategorized

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

by Rae | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog, News | In Vitro Diagnostics Testing Kits

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

by Rae | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog, News | In Vitro Diagnostics Testing Kits

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

by Rae | Mar 20, 2020 | Blog

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

by Rae | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog

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

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...

Total Analytical Error and Total Allowable Error: Important Concepts for Clinical Laboratories and a Useful List of Recommendations

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...

An Excel Spreadsheet to Help with Interference Experiments

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...