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.
**IMPORTANT NOTICE** The laboratory will be closed between Wednesday 17th December 2025 to Monday 5th January 2026 for the Christmas and New Year period.
Please ensure that any samples sent to us arrive on or before Tuesday 16th December and after Monday 5th January 2026. Any samples received during the closure period will not be processed and may be at risk of haemolysis.
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.
