North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 42 - LABORATORY SERVICES
Subchapter A - GENERAL POLICIES
Section 42A .0102 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
The following definitions shall apply throughout this Chapter:
(1) "Laboratory" refers to the State Laboratory of Public Health as described in G.S. 130A-88.
(2) "The laboratory" refers to any other health related laboratories in North Carolina.
(3) "Specimen" refers to material collected from human beings, animals and insects.
(4) "Sample" refers to material collected from the environment and includes milk and other food although these may be animal products.
(5) "CDC" refers to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
(6) "Authorized sender of specimens" refers to any individual who is authorized to manipulate a patient for the purpose of collecting blood, spinal fluid, and other body materials for analysis, or to an agency such as a hospital, local health department, or clinic which employs persons to perform such services under the direction of a licensed individual, when submitting specimens for types of analyses that have been approved by the Department for submission to the Division or which are required by law or rule to be submitted to the Division.
(7) "Authorized sender of samples" is any individual who has been designated by law, rules and regulations, or professional position to collect and submit environmental material for analysis when submitting specimens for types of analyses that have been approved by the Department for submission to the Division or which are required by law or rule to be submitted to the Division.
Authority
G.S.
130A-88;
Eff. February 1,
1976;
Readopted Eff. November 15, 1977;
Amended Eff.
September 1, 1990; October 1, 1985; October 1, 1984;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. December 23,
2017.
