Agree with everything but:
"By using MBL’s, less time is required" => change "MBL's" to "MBLs" - it's not a possessive.
If you look in an old enough style guide (the current standard is as you say), it will say to use an apostrophe when you pluralize an acronym. Wikipedia agrees.
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