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a) the confidentiality of personal information, for the requestor and the service laboratory,
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b) the laboratory safety requirements,
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c) the calibration sources and calibration dose ranges useful for establishing the reference
dose-response curves that contribute to the dose estimation from unstable chromosome aberration frequency and the detection limit,
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d) the scoring procedure for unstable chromosome aberrations used for biological dosimetry,
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e) the criteria for converting a measured aberration frequency into an estimate of absorbed
dose,
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f) the reporting of results,
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g) the quality assurance and quality control, and
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h) informative annexes containing sample instructions for requestor (see Annex A), sample questionnaire (see Annex B), sample report (see Annex C), fitting of the low dose-response curve by the method of maximum likelihood and
calculating the error of the dose estimate (see Annex D), odds ratio method for cases of suspected exposure to a low dose (see Annex E), a method for determining the decision threshold and detection limit (see Annex F) and sample data sheet for recording aberrations (see Annex G).