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Management credentials at issue in Ohio crime laboratory
APR 29 2013 - "Recent events in Canton, Ohio have made it clear that some politicians with the responsibility for appointing crime lab managers cannot be trusted to exercise good judgment.  But in the absence of authoritative and specific standards governing the credentials of crime laboratory administrators, these missteps may happen again somewhere else."

Complex scandal had simple causes, says audit report
MAR 28 2013 - "A 'focused assessment of the laboratory quality systems' in place at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute (HSLI) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, with 'special emphasis on analytical chemistry and those few testing areas not currently subject to an external regulatory process such as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) or other state or federal oversight,' was conducted at the request of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)."

Promise and peril: the national forensic science commission
FEB 28 2013 - "The idea of a national commission on forensic science holds promise and can succeed if it is done right and with resolve.  But from this point, the possible paths forward are infinite.  Some will lead to success; others will lead to failure."

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