Based on Recommendations of the Working Group on Preanalytical Variables of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry and the German Society for Laboratory Medicine

Members: F. da Fonseca-Wollheim, Berlin; W. Ehret, Augsburg; W.G. Guder, München; W. Heil, Wuppertal; O. Müller-Plathe, Hamburg; Y. Schmitt, Darmstadt; G. Töpfer, Görlitz; H. Wisser, Stuttgart; B.Zawta, Mannheim
Contributors include
Corresponding members:
G. Banfi, Milan, Italy
K.Bauer, Vienna, Austria
A.Deom, Geneva, Switzerland
C.G.Fraser, Dundee, Scotland
S.Golf, Giessen, Germany
P.Hagemann, Zürich, Switzerland
J. Henny, Nancy, France
P.Hyltoft Petersen, Odense, Denmark Heidelberg, Germany
A.Kallner, Stockholm, Sweden
E.A. Leppänen, Helsinki, Finland
S. Narayanan, New York, USA
M. Neumaier, Hamburg, Germany
M.A.Peça Amaral Gomes, Lisbon, Portugal
R.Probst, Munich, Germany
Industry representatives:
R.Zinck, Abbott GmbH, Wiesbaden-
-Delkenheim, Germany
P.Mikulcik, Bayer Diagnostics,
Fernwald, Germany
R. Hinzmann, Beckman Coulter,
Krefeld, Germany
C.Becker, Becton Dickinson GmbH,
M.Lammers, Dade-Behring Diagnostics,
Marburg, Germany
M.Buchberger, C.A.Greiner,
Kremsmünster, Austria
J.Kukuk, Rolf Greiner Biochemica,
Limburg, Germany
D.Klahr, Hettich Centrifuges,
Tuttlingen, Germany
D.Kolpe, Kabe Labortechnik GmbH
Nümbrecht-Elsenroth, Germany
H.Gross, Kendro Laboratory Products GmbH,
Hanau, Germany
H.Kitta, Klinika GmbH, Usingen, Germany
G.Gunzer, Olympus Diagnostica, Clare, Ireland
O.Sonntag, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics,
Neckargemünd, Germany
W.D.Engel, R.Weisheit, Roche Diagnostics,
Mannheim, Penzberg, Germany
W.Brand, Sarstedt, Nümbrecht, Germany
V.-J. Friemert, Sigma Diagnostics,
Deisenhofen, Germany
T.Kunert-Latus, Terumo Europe N.V.,
Leuven, Belgium
G.Hoffmann, Trillium GmbH, Grafrath, Germany
