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Fecal Immunochemical Testing (WG-FIT)
IFCC WG-FIT Meeting - Vienna, October 2018
Membership
| Name | Position | Country | Term | Time in Office |
| S. Benton | Chair | UK | 2nd | 2020 01 - 2022 12 |
| J.M. Auge | Member | ES | ||
| L. Deprez | Member | BE | ||
| N. Djedovic | Member | UK | ||
| M. Frasa | Member | NL | ||
| S. Jones | Member | UK | ||
| P. Kocna | Member | CZ | ||
| C. Piggott | Member | UK | ||
| P. St. Louis | Member | CA | ||
| J. Strachan | Member | UK | ||
| E. Symonds | Member | AU | ||
| S. Takehara | Member | JP | ||
| E. van der Hagen | Member | NL | ||
| A. Cugini | Corp. Member | IT | ||
| Y. Doi | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| M. Fujimura | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| T. Fukuda | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| H. Hayashi | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| A. Horikawa | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| Y. Masuda | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| F. Rota | Corp. Member | IT | ||
| S. Wu | Corp. Member | JP | ||
| M. Zacherl | Corp. Member | DE |
Terms of Reference
- To harmonise and/or standardise analysis of haemoglobin in faecal samples by immunochemistry (FIT)
- To establish EQA and 3rd party IQC programmes
- To determine the feasibility of developing reference materials and/or commutable calibrators
- The IFCC FIT-WG can provide recommendations and guidance on preanalytical and analytical aspects of FIT
Current projects
- Identification of a suitable reference material and assessment of commutability for all available laboratory quantitative FIT methods
- Review of all FIT EQA programmes currently available globally
List of Corresponding Members, nominated by National Societies
| Name | Full and Affiliate Member Societies |
| Dogan Yucel | Turkish Biochemical Society (TBS) |
Working Group Chair's contact
Sally C BENTON FRCPath
Consultant Biochemist
Surrey Pathology Services
Royal Surrey County Hospital
Director, Bowel Cancer Screening Hub – South of England
Surrey Research Park, 20 Priestley Road
Guildford
Surrey GU2 7YS - UK
Tel: 0044 01483409850
Email: sally.benton@nhs.net