**IMPORTANT NOTICE**
For the Easter break, the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Laboratory will be closed from Monday 30th March and reopen on Thursday 9th April.
Please ensure that any samples sent to the lab arrive by Friday 27th March or after Wednesday 8th April 2026.
Please see below for frequently asked questions about our laboratory services. Contact our laboratory manager Dr Jennifer Canizales for further information on all of the below.
Send 10ml clotted blood or 5ml serum to our laboratory. This can be sent in a suitable container through the post - preferably not on a Friday due to weekend closures.
Please send a covering letter with the sample, or use our laboratory services request form, ensuring that the sample bottle is labelled appropriately.
If you would like to measure specific IgE and IgG antibodies to a putative occupational allergen, please contact Dr Jennifer Canizales.
We are one of only a few remaining laboratories in the country that carry out precipitin testing to occupational and environmental allergens, typically moulds. This test requires a blood sample and an allergen sample.
Yes. Please note that we need a fresh, heparinised blood sample. You can read more at our section on BeLPT.
We elute filters and measure aeroallergen levels.
