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2020 Queens Birthday Weekend Closure
26 May 2020
Hill Laboratories is closed for Queen’s Birthday on Monday 1st June and will resume normal business hours on Tuesday 2nd June. Please ensure time-sensitive samples are sent accordingly, as deliveries & receipts will not occur on Monday…
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We are pleased to advise you of an important new service that is going live in our Hamilton laboratory, one that we are very proud of and excited about. We are partnering with the Waikato DHB to provide additional testing capacity to their laboratory in Hamilton for SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes COVID-19) in nasopharyngeal swabs…
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MOH Approval Granted for Hemp Testing
4 May 2020
Hill Laboratories was granted ‘Approved Laboratory’ status in March this year by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and can now offer THC testing on industrial hemp samples. We are the first privately owned laboratory in New Zealand to obtain accreditation for our method and be granted the ‘Approved Laboratory’ status…
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All Silages Are Not Equal
4 May 2020
It is timely to think about silage testing, given feed supply is short for much of the country and supplementary feeding may be needed to get livestock through the autumn and winter. This article explores some findings on an analysis of over 1600 pasture silage and baleage samples submitted in 2019…
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