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Nutrition Evaluation Laboratory

The Nutrition Evaluation Laboratory provides clinical and specialized biochemical analyses for human, animal, epidemiological, and field studies. Licensed by the federal government and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Clinical Core Unit provides results for over thirty hematology, blood chemistry, and urinalysis procedures. The laboratory adheres to strict quality-control measures by using commercial reference materials and by participating in the College of American Pathologists' external proficiency survey. The Specialized Chemistries Unit provides approximately 120 protocol-specific laboratory procedures. Quality control of the esoteric procedures is monitored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Reference Materials or commercially available serum and urine quality-control materials. The Specimen Processing Unit receives, processes, stores, and tracks blood, urine, and fecal samples. A clinical laboratory software package provides infinite storage and specimen archiving, on-line quality-control checking, workload reporting, and test-result transfer from instruments to medical records.