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The Newborn Screening Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, operates the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP). NSQAP is a voluntary, non-regulatory program to help state health departments and their laboratories maintain and enhance the quality of test results. The program is operated in partnership with the Association of Public Health Laboratories. The program provides services to more than 73 domestic newborn screening laboratories, 29 manufacturers of diagnostic products, and laboratories in 58 countries. NSQAP has been the only comprehensive source of essential quality assurance services for dried-blood-spot testing for more than 29 years. (From Their Website)

Newborn screening has long been recognized as an essential, life-saving, and effective preventive public health service that has identified thousands of babies each year in the United States who are born with a genetic or metabolic disorder. In many cases, detecting these disorders spells the difference between life and death for these babies; in other instances, identifying newborns with a disorder means that they can be treated and thus not face life-long disability or cognitive impairment. Now, with the advent of new screening technology, babies can be tested—and treated— for many more disorders than was possible in the past. (From Their Website)

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