Laboratory Standards and Regulations    

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Standards and regulations are vital to high quality laboratory work. The goal is to achieve - accurate, reliable, and reproducible results. This section contains information on standards and recommended guidelines pertinent to cytometry laboratories concerning compliance with U.S legislation covering clinical laboratories, including forms for documentation. The Australasian Flow Cytometry Group has written a series of recommended guidelines covering a number of clinical test areas. 

• Flow Cytometry Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) Compliance Manual   A. Hurley & D. Zito
• AFCG Recommended Guidelines For The Detection of Auto & Allo Antibodies
• AFCG Recommended Guidelines For DNA Investigations
• AFCG Recommended Guidelines For HLA-B27 Typing by Flow Cytometry
• AFCG Recommended Guidelines For Leukemia and Lymphoma Phenotyping
• AFCG Recommended Guidelines For Lymphocyte Immunophenotyping
• AFCG Recommended Guidelines For the Detection of Reticulocytes  
• Consensus Documents and Ring Trials

For the most up-to-date AFCG Guidelines please visit their web site at http://jcsmr.anu.edu.au/facslab/AFCG/ or go to the Consensus Documents in the Cytorelay web site home page. You will find additional standards and guidelines there as well, including the current version of the Flow Cytometric Data File Standards, FCS3.0.  

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CD-ROM Vol 4 was produced by Monica M. Shively and other staff at the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories and distributed free of charge as an educational service to the cytometry community. If you have any comments please direct them to Dr. J. Paul Robinson, Professor & Director, PUCL, Purdue University,West Lafayette, IN 47907, Phone: (765)494-0757 FAX: (765) 494-0517, Web http://www.cyto.purdue.edu , EMAIL cdrominfo@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu