Catachem continues to work closely with its customers to design specialty chemistry tests and tailor these to the specific needs and demands of the veterinary laboratory. For example, veterinary blood samples are frequently milky and turbid due to high levels of lipids. Catachem has developed a unique clearing agent, CataKlear (CLR-525), for even the most lipemic samples, allowing accurate analysis of the sample’s components. Animal blood can also become hydrolyzed during the trauma involved in obtaining a sample. Catachem reagents are optimized to handle the “less-than-perfect” samples that veterinary laboratories regularly encounter.