Focus:
• Laboratory administration
• Sentinel laboratory training
• BT/CT sample collection procedures
• Shipping and packaging procedures including chain of custody
• Methods and instruments updates
• Laboratory information management system (LIMS)
• Continuity of operations plans
• Emergency preparedness exercises and drills
Accomplishments: Improving collaboration and communication among various partners
Members:
• Representatives from the Delaware Division of Public Health
• Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Control
• Office of Radiation Control, the Delaware Department of Agriculture
• Delaware Emergency Management Agency
• State and private hospital laboratories
• Dover Air Force Base
• Representatives from surrounding states' emergency preparedness agencies and/or the U.S. Postal Service (Pennsylvania and New Jersey)
Materials:
Delaware Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee agenda – May 2007
Delaware Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee agenda – May 2006
Delaware Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee agenda – November 2005
Delaware Laboratory Preparedness Advisory Committee agenda – April 2005