the court and we had to appeal to
United States Court of Appeals, sec-
ond Circuit. Attorneys Milton Bass
and Robert Ullman argued the
appeal on October 19, 1973 and the
court decided in our favor on
December 11, 1973. Our industry
was able to continue to provide
products based on science to
improve the health of people.
Another part of the story in learning
about widespread vitamin D defi-
ciency is that one of the most fre-
quently used reference analytical
laboratories that determine how
much vitamin D is in patients’ blood
was giving the wrong results. You
uncovered this problem and led to
having it corrected. Please tell our
readers a little bit about this prob-
lem.
Cannell: I was the first to report
that Quest Laboratories, the largest
reference laboratory doing vitamin D
analysis in the United States, was
reporting incorrect results that made
it appear the patients had more vita-
min D than they actually did. Levels
of 25-hydroxy vitamin D may have
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problem?
Cannell: Yes. As you know, you
have to prepare your sample speci-
men extremely carefully. This tech-
nique requires a highly skilled opera
tor, who often holds a Ph.D. When
vitamin D tests became the single
most-requested lab test in the coun-
try, which happened about a year-
and-a-half ago, the number of
requests that Quest was getting for
vitamin D increased 100-fold. You
can’t rush the test with the proce-
dure that Quest was using. Basically,
it is a research method used to iden
tify substances in blood. In contrast,
the technique used by other refer-
ence labs is a simplified, fool-proof
method. The standard technique is
mechanized, more like most labora-
tory tests, and it doesn’t require an
especially skilled operator. It can be
done by most technicians.
Once that huge upswing in
demand for vitamin D testing
occurred, you can imagine the effec
it had on the operators of this highly
specialized instrument Quest uses.
There were thousands of blood sam