carry out routine blood-testing | conduct a routine blood test | conduct blood gases, electrolytes and metabolite testing | conduct routine blood testing

The Canadian Blood Services says that although there is that incubation period, as we all understand, if the blood tests negative for HIV, their statistics are that the chances of getting that are less than one in 913,000 once it's tested.

Mr. Colin MacDonald: All the investment we've made and all the innovations we've brought to the table, including the dry land pound, an MRI machine that tells you how much meat is in the animal, blood-protein testing, and banding the lobsters, and all the markets we've developed in Asia, Japan, China, Europe, and the Middle East, are frustrated by the fact that we have absolutely no control over our landed cost or supply.

Animals may be transferred directly from one semen collection centre to another of equal health status without quarantine or testing, provided that the conditions set out in point 5 are satisfied and the compulsory routine tests referred to in Chapter II have been carried out during the 12 months prior to the date of transfer.

(Return tabled) Question No. 8 Ms. Judy Wasylycia-Leis: With respect to the government’s actions to detect, prevent and treat Lyme disease in Canada: (a) by what standard is the accuracy of Lyme disease testing conducted at the National Microbiological Laboratories evaluated; (b) when was the most recent independent evaluation of the proficiency of this testing conducted, by whom and what were the results; (c) what are the current criteria for determining whether a geographical area is deemed to be endemic for Lyme-infected ticks; (d) what is the projected schedule of field study with regard to such endemic areas; (e) with respect to ...[+++] the recommendations of the National Conference on Lyme Disease hosted by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) in March 2006, (i) have the committees to develop new guidelines on surveillance, clinical and laboratory criteria been formed and, if so, when have they met, (ii) what stakeholder groups have participated in the development of new guidelines, what form has that participation taken, and when did it occur; (f) what is the government's strategy to protect canadians from the increase in incidents of Lyme disease anticipated by PHAC; (g) what is PHAC's strategy to increase (i) physicians' and other health professionals' awareness of the symptoms of Lyme disease, (ii) the canadian public's awareness of the symptoms of Lyme disease; (h) what measures has the PHAC taken in conjunction with provincial health authorities to increase professional and public awareness; (i) what are PHAC's measurable targets for the future increase of awareness and diagnostic accuracy of Lyme disease; (j) does Health Canada recommend the screening of blood for Lyme disease or co-infections such as babesiosis, as done in the United States and, if not, why not; and (k) what research projects into lyme borelia and tick-borne co-infections, their epidemiology, their possible role in the occurence of other diseases, and their treatment are current ...