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Nitiz Murdia։ How Does the Lab Make Sure My Sample Is Actually Mine, at Every Single Step?

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Sep 2, 2026, 14:20

Nitiz Murdia։ How Does the Lab Make Sure My Sample Is Actually Mine, at Every Single Step?

Nitiz Murdia, Director of Embryology Lab at Indira IVF Group, shared on LinkedIn:

“When people ask about technology in IVF, the conversation almost always turns to embryo selection or AI grading. There’s a quieter question that matters more to most patients, and it rarely comes up unless they ask it directly. How does the lab make sure my sample is actually mine, at every single step?

Every IVF cycle involves multiple points where an egg, a sperm sample or an embryo moves from one dish, tube or workstation to another, sometimes several times in a single day, often with more than one patient’s samples present in the lab at once. Traditionally, this was managed through manual double checking, two embryologists confirming labels against each other by eye.

It works most of the time. Fatigue, workload, and simple human distraction mean most of the time isn’t the same as always, and in this specific part of fertility care, always is the only acceptable standard.

Electronic Witnessing systems close that gap using RFID tags or barcodes attached to every dish and tube, cross-checked automatically at each step. If a mismatch is ever detected, the system stops the process and sounds an alarm before anything moves forward.

A study comparing manual visual checking against RFID-based witnessing found manual methods correctly caught mismatches only around 89 percent of the time, while the electronic system caught them without exception. A separate study running this technology in a busy Indian IVF lab found it integrated smoothly into daily workflow while adding a consistent extra layer of verification.

We’ve built electronic witnessing into how IVF is run across the Indira IVF Group network, not as a marketing feature but because in this part of fertility care, the cost of getting identification wrong is unlike almost anything else in medicine. Most of what a patient experiences during IVF, she can see and ask about directly. This is the one part she has to trust entirely, and it deserves to be treated with exactly that level of seriousness.”

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