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These guidelines establish descriptions and procedures for evaluating the performance of materials uses in immunoprecipitin analyses. Also included are discussions of the problems of specificity in the most widely used immunoprecipitin methods, necessary information for package inserts, and recommended reference preparations. For the definition of terms used in these guidelines, we refer the reader to NCCLS document DI1-A2, Glossary and Guidelines for Immunodiagnostic Procedures, Reagents, and Reference Materials-Second Edition; Approved Guideline.