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Exhibit 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration
Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-94379) of our report dated February 29, 2000
relating to the consolidated financial statements and financial statement
schedule, which appears in Boston Biomedica, Inc.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 1999. We also consent to the incorporation by
reference of our report dated July 10, 1998, except as to certain information in
the second paragraph of Note I, for which the date is September 30, 1998
relating to the financial statements of BioSeq, Inc., which appears in such
Annual Report on Form 10-K. We also consent to the reference to us under the
heading "Experts" in such Registration Statement.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Boston, Massachusetts
June 8, 2000
