Avigene laboratory team includes experts who have rich experience in Avian DNA testing. Avigene follows rigorous quality control procedures to ensure DNA sexing of the highest quality. Avigene claims its accuracy level for Avian DNA sexing to be higher than 99.9%.

Internal Quality Procedures

Internally Avigene follows thorough quality control mechanisms to eliminate the possibility of any technical errors. In addition to the internationally accepted quality control standards for a molecular laboratory, Avigene also follows practices such as specific controls in each run, use of same controls across different PCR runs as part of internal quality control.

External Quality Assurance Programs

In addition to internal quality control Avigene continuously evaluates its testing quality externally. The program includes

Random evaluation of already tested samples from an external laboratory of international repute

Evaluation directly by select customers using a sample for which result is already known to the customer.

Lot specific Blinded duplicate assay

is Avigene’s unique method of assuring customers of its testing accuracy in every lot sent by the customer. Avigene requests all customers with 10+ samples to use this service at no cost without any exception. Further, Avigene offers this service to other customers too upon specific request.

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