Instituto Adolfo Lutz is an analytical laboratory, being accredited as a National Laboratory of Public Health and Reference Laboratory Macroregional the Brazilian Ministry of Health, based in São Paulo. It is the result of the junction Bacteriological Institute with the DIETETIC LABORATORIES, participants Paulista Network of Health in October 26, 1940. The name of the new institute was a posthumous tribute to Adolfo Lutz, first director of the Bacteriological Institute in 1892.
The Institute works in the areas Bromatology and Chemistry, Biology, Medicine and Pathology, and produce knowledge relevant for public health, developing applied research, promoting and disseminating scientific research, collaborating in the development of technical standards, standardizing diagnostic methods and analytical and organizing courses technical training, improvement and refinement stages.