Accreditation and Certificates Refining our practices and procedures to ensure the most accurate results.

Methods of Excellence

Our industry focuses on two main methods to ensure quality and excellence: The College of American Pathologists' Proficiency Test and AABB Accreditation. Our laboratory has created and refined our practices to guarantee accuracy and reliability.

Accreditation Process

There are no government mandated accrediting agencies for relationship testing laboratories in the United States. Parentage laboratory accreditation is completely voluntary and is at the sole discretion of the laboratory.

There are agencies that are willing to evaluate and inspect parentage testing laboratories for a fee and grant a certificate to show that the laboratory has met the minimum standards set forth. Further, there are no formal education programs specific to parentage testing with specific knowledge and experience coming from on-the-job training.

Proficiency Testing | Quality 3x

We strive for excellence at GFI Laboratory and have implemented a quality assurance system to ensure the highest level of performance and accuracy. We participate in the College of American Pathologists (CAP) proficiency testing program for parentage testing laboratories. At this time, GFI Laboratory is not accredited by the AABB.

A proficiency test is designed to test the laboratory's ability to generate accurate results that conform with the known DNA profiles of the subjects tested. At GFI Laboratory, each DNA analyst is tested 3 times each year by participating in the CAP proficiency testing program for parentage testing laboratories and undergoes blind evaluations where they do not know they are being tested. We feel that this is the best way to evaluate the overall process of reporting accurate results.

In Practice

At GFI Laboratory, we believe it is important to focus on the ways we can eliminate errors by establishing sound protocols in our day-to-day operations and implementing them to the point that no error is tolerable.

Ultimately, it is the laboratory director's responsibility that the results be accurate and correct.