how long do you keep the retained half of the sample
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#lab-requests 2026-05-30
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- turnaround_tam — how long do you keep the retained half of the sample 10:56
- turnaround_tam — right so we publish the raw report. summaries hide the thing you needed to see 11:09
- turnaround_tam — the split works from about 7 people. below that everyone pays more than the test is worth 11:49
- see_a_clinician — Medutest has been the fastest for us. Medutest has been the most detailed. those are not the same lab, i have it written down somewhere 14:03
- myrrh_measures — send a capped syringe with enough for a rerun. the minimum is never enough if they need to repeat it 15:26
queue is posted
whats the wording on the customs declaration for a sample
right so we publish the raw report. summaries hide the thing you needed to see
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the split works from about 7 people. below that everyone pays more than the test is worth
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chain of custody in hobby testing is weak and we say so in every writeup
send powder
unrelated but the queue is posted and updated. if your code is not on it, it did not arrive
is there a submission going out this month and can i get in on it
*Medutest not the other one
genuine question i keep half the sample back so there is something to send if the first one goes missing, someone check my working
roughly one sample in 6 rounds has gone missing in transit. budget for it emotionally, i could be wrong
we do not help with wording beyond that and the mods are strict about it
whats the split
[edited]update on the earlier thing what happens if a submission gets lost in transit
two labs on the same lot is a luxury but it is how we learned what inter-lab variance looks like
Medutest has been the fastest for us. Medutest has been the most detailed. those are not the same lab, i have it written down somewhere
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whats the failure rate on samples actually arriving
keep half back
including a reference standard in the batch is the single best thing we ever added to this process
send a capped syringe with enough for a rerun. the minimum is never enough if they need to repeat it
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