Laboratory Standards | New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center

Current Standards

May 2021 revisions to the General Systems Standards and Specialty Requirements by Category, for Microbiology and Cytopathology, may be viewed below under the heading of Revisions to Laboratory Standards - May 2021.

Clinical Laboratory Standards of Practice

General Systems Standards - Effective May 2021

Specialty Requirements by Category

Revisions to Laboratory Standards - May 2021

Summaries showing revisions to the General Systems Standards and Specialty Requirements by Category, for Microbiology and Cytopathology, are shown below. Changes are effective May 5, 2021.

Also available is a side-by-side comparison of the former General Systems Standards, prior to August 2020, and the Adopted Standards.

General Systems Standards - Summary of Revisions