Bio-Rad

March 2024—Bio-Rad Laboratories has published the third workbook in a P.A.C.E.-approved series designed to provide lab professionals with the training and education needed to maintain reliable test results. “Quality Control Process Optimization with Cost of Quality Application” focuses on a practical approach of cost of quality to the laboratory workflow process of quality control. After using the workbook, laboratorians will be able to construct a basis worksheet to calculate the failure costs of a selected failed laboratory process.

December 2023—Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the expanded compatibility of its cardiac control, Cardiac Advance, to include Beckman Coulter instruments. The next-generation control is optimized with troponin I and troponin T targets near the limit of instrument detection and contains 10 of the most tested cardiac analytes, including troponin, CK-MB, BNP/proBNP, and myoglobin. Cardiac Advance is available in multiple formats, including the Liquicheck and InteliQ human serum-based controls.

August 2023—Bio-Rad Laboratories has published the second workbook in a series that offers Professional Acknowledgement for Continuing Education credits. The second installment, titled “Laboratory Quality Control Materials,” focuses on identifying proper QC materials and using and handling them appropriately to help monitor QC testing procedures that produce high-quality patient results. Lab professionals can receive a certificate after successfully completing a short exam at the end of the workbook and earn 2.0 contact hours.

May 2023—Bio-Rad Laboratories has launched Cardiac Advance, a four-level multianalyte cardiac quality control for high-sensitivity troponin testing.