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The College of American Pathologists, which is the physician organization of pathologists, requires quarterly quality assurance (double blind tests) of all their member labratories -- they send out various samples and the labratory is supposed to treat it like a regular patient sample. They hired a company to send out a type of Infulenza Type A.

The company made the selection of which one to send -- in this case they choose poorly.

The samples themselves are usually shipped by UPS, Fedex, or Airborne express, and have to be labeled as a biohazard.