Benner, Bruce A. Jr.
Schantz, Michele M.
Powers, Carissa D.
Schleicher, Rosemary L.
Camara, Johanna E.
Sharpless, Katherine E.
Yen, James H.
Sniegoski, Lorna T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements
Article History
Received: 29 September 2017
Revised: 1 December 2017
Accepted: 18 December 2017
First Online: 13 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: The contractor who collected, processed, and packaged SRM 2378 was required to submit documentation to NIST of their relationship with an appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB) registered with the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Human Research Protections and located within the community in which the human subject research was conducted. The contractor also had to submit documentation for NIST institutional review and approval. The donors to SRM 2378 signed a form acknowledging that they had read information describing what their blood would be used for, that they had received answers to any questions, and that they gave consent for their blood to be pooled and used in the preparation of a serum SRM.
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: This work represents no known conflicts of interest with respect to the authors or their institutions.