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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 333 MEDICAL LABORATORIES
333.010 Purpose of law.
Download pdfof the people of this state from the hazards of improper performance by medical
laboratories. The General Assembly recognizes that medical laboratories provide essential
services to the medical practitioner by furnishing him vital information which is essential
to a determination of the nature, cause, and extent of the condition involved and that the
people of this state are entitled to receive the highest level of competence, reliability, and
accuracy that may be expected from medical laboratories and that unreliable and
inaccurate reports may cause unnecessary anxiety, suffering, financial burdens, and even
contribute directly to death. It is the intent of this chapter to safeguard the health of the
people of this state by regulating the operation of medical laboratories. History: Created 1968 Ky. Acts ch. 180, sec. 2.
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