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The Division of Laboratory Systems ('DLSs) purpose is to improve the quality of laboratory testing and related practices in the U.S. and globally through the development and evaluation of innovative training, technical standards, practice guidelines, and reference materials. [2] Major Products or Services provided by DLS include: [2]
Short title: CDC Division of Laboratory Sciences Brochure; Author: ATSDR: Date and time of digitizing: 06:13, 1 October 2008: File change date and time: 10:34, 23 June 2016
The Division of Select Agents and Toxins (DSAT) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is responsible for the Select Agent Program and the Etiologic Agent Import Permit Program. They inspect the laboratories of more than 300 organizations approved to use and transfer select agents , and put regulations in place to minimize risk in ...
The CDC Good laboratory practice guidelines for newborn screening recommends that "laboratory specimen retention procedures should be consistent with patient decisions." [ 49 ] Researchers have described the NBS samples as a gold mine representing a patient population that would otherwise be impossible to get. [ 46 ]
The mission of the CDC expanded beyond its original focus on malaria to include sexually transmitted diseases when the Venereal Disease Division of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) was transferred to the CDC in 1957. Shortly thereafter, Tuberculosis Control was transferred (in 1960) to the CDC from PHS, and then in 1963 the Immunization ...
The Laboratory Response Network (LRN) is a collaborative effort within the US federal government involving the Association of Public Health Laboratories and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most state public health laboratories participate as reference laboratories (formerly level B/C) of the LRN.
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The CDC has regulated the laboratories which may possess, use, or transfer select agents within the United States under the SAP since 2001. The SAP was established to satisfy requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, which were enacted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the subsequent 2001 ...