Vitamin Diagnostics Lab--now expected to be up by end of March

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Hi, all.

I just spoke to Dr. Audhya, the director of the Vitamin Diagnostics lab by phone

today, and he is currently estimating that the lab will be back in operation by

the end of March.

It has been a long down time for the lab's required move to a different building

in New Jersey, and he regrets this. And as you can imagine, it is very costly

for the owner of the lab to be paying salaries and other expenses without money

coming in from sample analyses, so they are working as expeditiously as they can

to get back into full operation.

A lot of progress has been made. What remains is to recalibrate the instruments

and run test samples that will also be run by another lab for comparison. Then

the state and federal lab certification authorities will compare the results and

decide whether to renew the certification. Hopefully this will all go well.

This is an involved process, but it helps to ensure that the test results will

be reliable when the lab comes back into operation.

I know that there are many people who want to have the methylation pathways

panel run, and I, too, would like to see that happen as soon as possible. Since

this is the only lab that offers this panel, there is no choice but to wait.

The European parent lab for Vitamin Diagnostics actually relies on Vitamin

Diagnostics in New Jersey to run most of this panel for their European clients

as well.

Best regards,

Rich