With headquarters at the Florida Department of Health in Tallahassee, three laboratories (central laboratory in Jacksonville and branch laboratories in Miami and Tampa) service Florida's 67 counties.

If you're unsure which laboratory will provide your service, view the test menu, email the Bureau of Public Health Laboratories, or call your servicing laboratory for additional questions:

Contributing to a Healthier Florida, One Test at a Time

The mission of the Bureau of Public Health Laboratories is to contribute to a healthier Florida by providing diagnostic screening, monitoring, reference, research, and emergency public health laboratory services to county health departments and other official agencies, physicians, hospitals, and private laboratories.

The bureau is charged with protecting the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the state of Florida from the hazards of improper performance of environmental laboratory tests through regulating environmental laboratories.
 
Our laboratories have the capability to conduct testing for rabies, HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis, syphilis, and others. We provide supporting data for the cause of food or water-borne outbreaks and check for more than 150 chemicals in clinical specimens in case of terrorist attack, along with identifying anthrax, smallpox, and other agents in the event of bioterrorism.

Florida's public health laboratories are also on the forefront to detect drug resistant organisms such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and multiple drug resistant and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis.

The links below provide the current Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certificate for each laboratory. CLIA licensure status for each laboratory can be found by entering the ID number on the Quality, Certification, and Oversight Reports under CLIA Laboratory Lookup.

• Jacksonville Lab (CLIA ID Number: 10D0645095)
• Miami Lab (CLIA ID Number: 10D06645348)
• Tampa Lab (CLIA ID Number: 10D0645546)

Current certifications for the Environmental Microbiology Water Laboratory

Jacksonville:

• EPA Drinking Water Laboratory Certification
• NY ELAP Certificate of Permit: Potable Water
• NY ELAP Certificate of Permit: Nonpotable Water

 Miami:

• EPA Drinking Water Laboratory Certification
• NY ELAP Certificate of Permit

• Test Menu
• Submission Forms

The Bureau of Public Health Laboratories (BPHL) is committed to continuous process improvements. If you have any comments or feedback for BPHL, please complete the BPHL Customer Satisfaction Survey.