Specimen Stability
Ensure collection samples are correctly stored.
You are welcome to return multiple specimens in one shipment
| Type of Specimen | Stability |
Food or Inhalant lgA, lgG, or lgG4 Panels |
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| Dried Blood Spot Cord (DBS) | 30 days at ambient temperature with relative humidity < 60% or refrigerated, 90 days frozen |
| Serum | 30 days at ambient temperature, 75 days at refrigerated or frozen |
Vitamin D Panel |
|
| Serum | 60 days at ambient temperature, refrigerated or frozen |
Food or Inhalant lgE Panels |
|
| Dried Blood Spot Cord (DBS) | 28 days frozen |
| Microtainer | 7 days at ambient temperature |
| Serum | 28 days frozen |
Comprehensive IgE |
|
| Microtainer | 7 days at ambient temperature, refrigerated or frozen; |
| Serum | 14 days at ambient temperature, refrigerated or frozen |
Organic Acids and/ or Environmental Pollutants Proflles |
|
| Urine Card | 14 days at ambient temperature, 90 days at refrigerated or frozen |
Candida Panel |
|
| Dried Blood Spot Cord (DBS) | 28 days at ambient temperature with relative humidity < 60%, refrigerated or frozen |
| Serum | 14 days at ambient temperature or refrigerated, 60 days frozen |
Microbiome Profile |
|
| Stool (GI Basic/Standard/Advanced) | 10 days at ambient temperature/ 12 days refrigerated (DO NOT freeze specimen). |
| Swab (Vaginal, Oral) | 10 days at ambient temperature/ 12 days refrigerated (DO NOT freeze specimen). |
| Urine (First Morning Void) | 10 days at ambient temperature/ 12 days refrigerated (DO NOT freeze specimen). |
Stool Panel |
|
| Stool (GI Pathogens Panel Basic/Extensive, Faecal Worm/Viral Profile PCR, H.Pylori + Virulence) | 10 days at ambient temperature/ 12 days refrigerated (DO NOT freeze specimen). |
| Stool (Beta-Glucoronidase, Calprotectin, Occult Blood, Transglutaminase IgA, Pancreatic Elastase, Secretory IgA, Zonulin; Clostridium difficle profile Toxin A/B) | 7 days at ambient temperature, 10 days refrigerated, and 30 days frozen. |
| Stool (H.Pylori EIA only) | 10 days at ambient temperature, 12 days refrigerated, and 30 days frozen. |
Nutritional Panels |
|
| Serum | 7 days at ambient temperature/ 10 days refrigerated (DO NOT freeze). |
| Urine | 7 days at ambient temperature/ 10 days refrigerated (DO NOT freeze). |
Thyroid Panels |
|
| Serum | 14 days frozen |
STD Panel |
|
| Serum |
7 days at ambient temperature, refrigerated or frozen; |
| Urine | 7 days at ambient temperature, 14 days at refrigerated, 30 days frozen |
Mycotoxin Panel |
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| Urine | 7 days at ambient temperature |
MOE-Tox Panel |
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| Urine | 7 days at ambient temperature |