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98 B ird et al .: J ournal of AOAC I nternational V ol . 100, N o . 1, 2017 We would like to extend special thanks to the following team members at Q Laboratories, Inc. for their efforts during the collaborative study: M. Joseph Benzinger, Jr, Allison Mastalerz, Megan Boyle, Alison DeShields, Jonathan Clifton, T. Shane Wilson, Meghan Daniel, Nicole Klass, and Colleen Sweeney.

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