There are only a handful of labs that do not pool samples and perform separate analyses on each sample submitted for testing. (ericbakker.com)
Dogs and cats were contaminated with 48 of 70 chemicals tested, including 43 chemicals at higher levels than those typically found in people, according to our study of plastics and food packaging chemicals, heavy metals, fire retardants, and stain - proofing chemicals in pooled samples of blood and urine from 20 dogs and 37 cats collected at a Virginia veterinary clinic. (patrickmahaney.com)
Determining the composition of pooled samples can be difficult, especially at the scale of modern sequencing data and reference databases. (journals.plos.org)