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__**﻿Newborn Screening**__


Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP) is voluntary, non-regulatory program to help state health departments and their laboratories maintain and enhance the quality of test results. Newborn Screeninf provides services to more than 85 domestic newborn screening laboratories, 31 manufacturers of diagnostic products, and laboratories in 67 countries. NSQAP has been the only reliable source of essential quality service for dried-blood spot testing for more than 33 years. About each year approximately 5,000 babies with severe disorders are identified in the United States using newborn screening programs.

"Newborn Screening Program." //Center of Disease Control.// Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 5 Mar. 2011. Web. 9 June 2011.