NCCLS eNews - 4 August 2004 (Plain Text Version)

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NCCLS Organizational Name Change Approved
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Notice of Vote and Comment Deadline for Consensus Documents
Recently Approved Documents
Focus on Global Terminology
Seeking Input and Volunteer Participation - Call for Nominations
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Notice of Vote and Comment Deadline for Consensus Documents

Evaluation of Matrix Effects (EP14-A2); Protection of Laboratory Workers from Occupationally Acquired Infections (M29-A3)

NCCLS announces that the following documents are submitted for vote as candidate-for-advancement consensus documents.

The documents and ballots are posted on NCCLS Forums to delegates of Active and Associate Active member organizations. If you are a voting delegate or alternate, we request that you access NCCLS Forums to obtain the candidate-for-advancement documents. Login to access NCCLS Forums

The deadline for the completed ballots for EP14-A2 and M29-A3 to be received in the Executive Offices is 4 October 2004.

EP14-A2 — Evaluation of Matrix Effects; Approved Guideline—Second Edition
This document provides guidance for evaluating the bias in analyte measurements that is due to the sample matrix (physiological or artificial) when two measurement procedures are compared.

M29-A3 — Protection of Laboratory Workers from Occupationally Acquired Infections; Approved Guideline—Third Edition
Based on U.S. regulations, this document provides guidance on the risk of transmission of hepatitis viruses and human immunodeficiency viruses in any laboratory setting; specific precautions for preventing the laboratory transmission of blood-borne infection from laboratory instruments and materials; and recommendations for the management of blood-borne exposure.

Under our Administrative Procedures, an NCCLS document approved by the area committee at the first level of the consensus process is submitted to the NCCLS delegates as a “candidate-for-advancement” consensus document. This begins the voting and approval period by the delegates.

As a delegate, your vote is to affirm (or reject) the document for advancement as an NCCLS document. Please send your completed ballot to the Executive Offices by the above deadline.

In the NCCLS consensus process, comments are invited at each publication stage. In each edition, the responsible committee includes a summary of comments on the prior edition and its responses to them. Any comments received on a candidate-for-advancement consensus document as a result of delegate voting and consensus review will be addressed by the committee during the document’s advancement.

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