Why was the Quantitation Limit field renamed to Reporting Limit?
Generally, the reporting limit is equal to the laboratory practical quantitation limit. However, there are times when project sensitivity concerns may cause laboratories to report results to lower limits, in which case, the reporting limit does not equal the practical quantitation limit. The name change from Quantitation Limit to Reporting Limit was made so that the specific required reporting limits for a dataset can be reported in this field regardless of whether or not they are equal the practical quantitation limits.
