§ 11839.21

Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 862, Sec. 114. Effective January 1, 2005.

The State Department of Health Services shall establish criteria for acceptable performance from those laboratories performing urinalysis or other body fluid analysis and shall not permit utilization of laboratories unable to meet an acceptable level of performance. The results of any performance evaluation of any laboratory shall immediately be made available to the local programs upon request. Nothing in this section shall prohibit body fluid analysis to be performed by a licensed narcotic treatment program upon approval of the State Department of Health

Services.

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