New York Times Exposes Vitamin D Testing Fraud

Mercola
1/7/2009

The nation’s largest medical laboratory company, Quest Diagnostics, gave potentially erroneous results to thousands of people who had their vitamin D levels tested in the last two years. The company has already sent letters to thousands of doctors listing the patients who might have received questionable test results and is offering free retests.

An erroneously high result could lead to vitamin D deficiency going undetected, and an erroneously low test result could possibly lead to a toxic overdose of vitamin D. When the Quest tests have been inaccurate, the reading has typically been too high.

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