Four laboratories encountered issues during a proficiency test for Listeria monocytogenes whole genome assembly, according to a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) report. The ...

The FDA reinstated the employees who run the proficiency testing program. After this story was published, Vianca N. Rodriguez Feliciano, Press Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health & Human ...

New regulations under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) introduced updated proficiency testing (PT) and PT referral rules that are now in effect. Although the regulations became ...

As the cannabis analytical market matures so do the requirements for quality assurance testing. This presentation will include an introduction to proficiency testing and how it applies to the cannabis ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. The FDA has suspended a quality control program for ...

Central to the diagnosis and management of patients with diabetes mellitus is the measurement of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). Major studies have defined the therapeutic targets of HbA1c in order to reduce ...