ANR IMPACT - Helping Clinical Laboratories Standardize... -
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Published on: 4/21/2006
Last Visited: 9/28/2009
Barry Wilson, animal science and environmental toxicology professor, his students and colleagues showed that tests used by California clinical laboratories often were not optimal and that results were not comparable from laboratory to laboratory.
This led to a change in state regulations requiring that mandatory tests be consistent and conversion factors be generated.
What has ANR done?
Wilson is working with Cal EPA Department of Pesticide Regulation to help clinical laboratories improve and standardize their blood cholinesterase measurements -- the blood enzymes used to detect exposure to the OP and CB pesticides.
Wilson and his laboratory collaborated with DANR IPM personnel such as Pat O'Connor-Marer and Jennifer Weber, state workers such as physician toxicologist Michael O'Malley, director of UC Davis Employee Health Services, the UCD/NIH Center for Environmental Health Sciences, and the UCD/NIOSH Agriculture Health and Safety Center.
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Barry Wilson, Professor
Departments of Animal Science
Department of Environmental Toxicology, UC Davis
(530) 752-3519; bwwilson@ucdavis.edu