The Carryover Effect:  Lack of Blanks between tests leads to false positive or inflated BAC results

The Carryover Effect: Lack of Blanks between tests leads to false positive or inflated BAC results

Imagine. You go into your doctor’s office for a routine physical. As part of that routine physical, the doctor takes your blood. You come back two weeks later where the doctor delivers the single worst sentence you have ever heard in your life: “I’m sorry but you have cancer.” Then comes ever worse news from…

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A large problem in Gas Chromatography:  No uniform standard for GC run position or composition

A large problem in Gas Chromatography: No uniform standard for GC run position or composition

I try to learn everything that I can about analytical testing.  Not being a scientist and only being a lawyer, I am an outsider to this fascinating world.  I find that as I learn more, more questions present themselves.  As an outsider last year l learned something that really kind of surprised me.  When Gas…

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