Laboratories issue numbered reports for each analytical deliverable. The labReportId captured on a SamplingEvent links Piper's AnalyticalResults back to the lab's official report identifier, making it easy to cross-reference Piper data with the physical or electronic report you received. During regulatory audits or data validation, the labReportId lets you quickly pull the correct lab report to verify a specific result. It also allows you to detect if the same lab report is accidentally imported twice via duplicate labReportId on two SamplingEvents for the same well and sampleDate.
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Sampling Event Lab Report ID
The `labReportId` on a SamplingEvent stores the reference number the laboratory assigned to the analytical report for this sampling event.