[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 230 (Tuesday, December 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75122-75124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-30433]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Current List of HHS-Certified Laboratories and Instrumented 
Initial Testing Facilities Which Meet Minimum Standards To Engage in 
Urine Drug Testing for Federal Agencies

AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notifies 
federal agencies of the laboratories and Instrumented Initial Testing 
Facilities (IITF) currently certified to meet the standards of the 
Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug Testing Programs 
(Mandatory Guidelines). The Mandatory Guidelines were first published 
in the Federal Register on April 11, 1988 (53 FR 11970), and 
subsequently revised in the Federal Register on June 9, 1994 (59 FR 
29908); September 30, 1997 (62 FR 51118); April 13, 2004 (69 FR 19644); 
November 25, 2008 (73 FR 71858); December 10, 2008 (73 FR 75122); and 
on April 30, 2010 (75 FR 22809).
    A notice listing all currently HHS-certified laboratories and IITFs 
is published in the Federal Register during the first week of each 
month. If any laboratory or IITF certification is suspended or revoked, 
the laboratory or IITF will be omitted from subsequent lists until such 
time as it is restored to full certification under the Mandatory 
Guidelines.
    If any laboratory or IITF has withdrawn from the HHS National 
Laboratory Certification Program (NLCP) during the past month, it will 
be listed at the end and will be omitted from the monthly listing 
thereafter.
    This notice is also available on the Internet at http://www.samhsa.gov/workplace.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Giselle Hersh, Division of Workplace 
Programs, SAMHSA/CSAP, Room 7-1051, One Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, 
Maryland 20857; 240-276-2600 (voice), 240-276-2610 (fax).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Mandatory Guidelines were initially 
developed in accordance with Executive Order 12564 and section 503 of 
Pub. L. 100-71. The ``Mandatory Guidelines for Federal Workplace Drug 
Testing Programs,'' as amended in the revisions listed above, requires 
strict standards that laboratories and IITFs must meet in order to 
conduct drug and specimen

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validity tests on urine specimens for federal agencies.
    To become certified, an applicant laboratory or IITF must undergo 
three rounds of performance testing plus an on-site inspection. To 
maintain that certification, a laboratory or IITF must participate in a 
quarterly performance testing program plus undergo periodic, on-site 
inspections.
    Laboratories and IITFs in the applicant stage of certification are 
not to be considered as meeting the minimum requirements described in 
the HHS Mandatory Guidelines. A HHS-certified laboratory or IITF must 
have its letter of certification from HHS/SAMHSA (formerly: HHS/NIDA), 
which attests that it has met minimum standards.
    In accordance with the Mandatory Guidelines dated November 25, 2008 
(73 FR 71858), the following HHS-certified laboratories and IITFs meet 
the minimum standards to conduct drug and specimen validity tests on 
urine specimens:

HHS-Certified Instrumented Initial Testing Facilities

Dynacare
6628 50th Street NW
Edmonton, AB Canada T6B 2N7
780-784-1190
(Formerly: Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories)

HHS-Certified Laboratories

ACM Medical Laboratory, Inc.
160 Elmgrove Park
Rochester, NY 14624
585-429-2264

Aegis Analytical Laboratories, Inc.
345 Hill Ave.
Nashville, TN 37210
615-255-2400
(Formerly: Aegis Sciences Corporation, Aegis Analytical Laboratories, 
Inc., Aegis Analytical Laboratories)

Alere Toxicology Services
1111 Newton St.
Gretna, LA 70053
504-361-8989/800-433-3823
(Formerly: Kroll Laboratory Specialists, Inc., Laboratory Specialists, 
Inc.)

Alere Toxicology Services
450 Southlake Blvd.
Richmond, VA 23236
804-378-9130
(Formerly: Kroll Laboratory Specialists, Inc., Scientific Testing 
Laboratories, Inc.; Kroll Scientific Testing Laboratories, Inc.)

Baptist Medical Center-Toxicology Laboratory
11401 I-30
Little Rock, AR 72209-7056
501-202-2783
(Formerly: Forensic Toxicology Laboratory Baptist Medical Center)

Clinical Reference Lab
8433 Quivira Road
Lenexa, KS 66215-2802
800-445-6917

DrugScan, Inc.
200 Precision Road, Suite 200
Horsham, PA 19044
800-235-4890

Dynacare*
245 Pall Mall Street
London, ONT, Canada N6A 1P4
519-679-1630
(Formerly: Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories)

ElSohly Laboratories, Inc.
5 Industrial Park Drive
Oxford, MS 38655
662-236-2609

Fortes Laboratories, Inc.
25749 SW Canyon Creek Road, Suite 600
Wilsonville, OR 97070
503-486-1023

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
7207 N. Gessner Road
Houston, TX 77040
713-856-8288/800-800-2387

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
69 First Ave.
Raritan, NJ 08869
908-526-2400/800-437-4986
(Formerly: Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc.)

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
1904 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919-572-6900/800-833-3984
(Formerly: LabCorp Occupational Testing Services, Inc., CompuChem 
Laboratories, Inc.; CompuChem Laboratories, Inc., A Subsidiary of Roche 
Biomedical Laboratory; Roche CompuChem Laboratories, Inc., A Member of 
the Roche Group)

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
1120 Main Street
Southaven, MS 38671
866-827-8042/800-233-6339
(Formerly: LabCorp Occupational Testing Services, Inc.; MedExpress/
National Laboratory Center)

LabOne, Inc. d/b/a Quest Diagnostics
10101 Renner Blvd.
Lenexa, KS 66219
913-888-3927/800-873-8845
(Formerly: Quest Diagnostics Incorporated; LabOne, Inc.; Center for 
Laboratory Services, a Division of LabOne, Inc.)

MedTox Laboratories, Inc.
402 W. County Road D
St. Paul, MN 55112
651-636-7466/800-832-3244

MetroLab-Legacy Laboratory Services
1225 NE 2nd Ave.
Portland, OR 97232
503-413-5295/800-950-5295

Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Forensic Toxicology Laboratory
1 Veterans Drive
Minneapolis, MN 55417
612-725-2088
Testing for Veterans Affairs (VA) Employees Only

National Toxicology Laboratories, Inc.
1100 California Ave.
Bakersfield, CA 93304
661-322-4250/800-350-3515

One Source Toxicology Laboratory, Inc.
1213 Genoa-Red Bluff
Pasadena, TX 77504
888-747-3774
(Formerly: University of Texas Medical Branch, Clinical Chemistry 
Division; UTMB Pathology-Toxicology Laboratory)

Pacific Toxicology Laboratories
9348 DeSoto Ave.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
800-328-6942
(Formerly: Centinela Hospital Airport Toxicology Laboratory)

Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories
110 West Cliff Dr.
Spokane, WA 99204
509-755-8991/800-541-7891x7

Phamatech, Inc.
15175 Innovation Drive
San Diego, CA 92128
888-635-5840

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
1777 Montreal Circle
Tucker, GA 30084
800-729-6432
(Formerly: SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories; SmithKline Bio-
Science Laboratories)

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
400 Egypt Road
Norristown, PA 19403
610-631-4600/877-642-2216
(Formerly: SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories; SmithKline Bio-
Science Laboratories)

Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
8401 Fallbrook Ave.
West Hills, CA 91304
818-737-6370
(Formerly: SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories)

Redwood Toxicology Laboratory
3700650 Westwind Blvd.
Santa Rosa, CA 95403
800-255-2159

Southwest Laboratories
4625 E. Cotton Center Boulevard
Suite 177

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Phoenix, AZ 85040
602-438-8507/800-279-0027

STERLING Reference Laboratories
2617 East L Street
Tacoma, Washington 98421
800-442-0438

US Army Forensic Toxicology Drug Testing Laboratory
2490 Wilson St.
Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755-5235
301-677-7085
Testing for Department of Defense (DoD) Employees Only

    *The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) voted to end its Laboratory 
Accreditation Program for Substance Abuse (LAPSA) effective May 12, 
1998. Laboratories certified through that program were accredited to 
conduct forensic urine drug testing as required by U.S. Department of 
Transportation (DOT) regulations. As of that date, the certification of 
those accredited Canadian laboratories will continue under DOT 
authority. The responsibility for conducting quarterly performance 
testing plus periodic on-site inspections of those LAPSA-accredited 
laboratories was transferred to the U.S. HHS, with the HHS' NLCP 
contractor continuing to have an active role in the performance testing 
and laboratory inspection processes. Other Canadian laboratories 
wishing to be considered for the NLCP may apply directly to the NLCP 
contractor just as U.S. laboratories do.
    Upon finding a Canadian laboratory to be qualified, HHS will 
recommend that DOT certify the laboratory (Federal Register, July 16, 
1996) as meeting the minimum standards of the Mandatory Guidelines 
published in the Federal Register on April 30, 2010 (75 FR 22809). 
After receiving DOT certification, the laboratory will be included in 
the monthly list of HHS-certified laboratories and participate in the 
NLCP certification maintenance program.

Summer King,
Statistician.
[FR Doc. 2015-30433 Filed 11-30-15; 8:45 am]
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