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Although not in the immediate control of the laboratory, every effort must be made to ensure appropriate priority is given to sample collection and handling because if this is not done properly all subsequent effort is wasted. Care in sample collection is especially important in post-mortem and overt medico-legal work, but even in clinical work effort in providing advance information to clinicians and pathologists on sample requirements (site of collection, volume, addition of sodium fluoride, etc.) and feedback on the problems that will arise when mistakes are made can only prove beneficial.