The Food Safety and Control Laboratory (FSCL) is located at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories, Seibersdorf. The laboratory assists Member States to improve laboratory and ...

Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) has traditionally relied on a fixed air changes per hour (ACH) approach to ensure safety in laboratory and research settings. Unfortunately, this method ...

In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a pro.found article entitled "To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System." The very first line of the publication reads, "Health care ...

Internal quality control is an integral process of laboratory testing. A clinical laboratory's coagulation quality control (QC) program is a critical component of its quality assessment program. The ...

Quality control training programs for small to medium businesses typically involve providing instruction on quality management systems and techniques, such as Six Sigma, focused on reducing product ...

Sigma metrics constitute a quantitative approach that integrates bias, imprecision and total allowable error to evaluate the performance of clinical laboratory assays ...

Theranos’ blood tests often failed to meet the lab’s own standards, a redacted inspection report released by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed today. Theranos also employed ...