Good Laboratory Practice immunoassay

In this section we provide some practical considerations to chemists not familiar with the use of immunoassays for food contaminants. We focus primarily on the use of 96-well microtiter ELISA. Regardless of the type of sample and analysis, good laboratory practices (GLPs) and international standards organization (ISO) standards, where they apply, need to be followed to ensure the quality of results and the minimization of variability. Like any other analytical protocol, the analysis of contaminants by immunoassay is a combination of three sequential steps sample collection and preparation, sample analysis, and data processing followed by the interpretation of results. 

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