KRS 333.010: Purpose of law.

It is the declared purpose of this chapter to protect the public health, safety, and welfare

of the people of this state from the hazards of improper performance by medical

laboratories. The General Assembly recognizes that medical laboratories provide essential

services to the medical practitioner by furnishing him vital information which is essential

to a determination of the nature, cause, and extent of the condition involved and that the

people of this state are entitled to receive the highest level of competence, reliability, and

accuracy that may be expected from medical laboratories and that unreliable and

inaccurate reports may cause unnecessary anxiety, suffering, financial burdens, and even

contribute directly to death. It is the intent of this cha pter to safeguard the health of the

people of this state by regulating the operation of medical laboratories.