The state’s scandal-plagued crime lab operated like an island within the larger Jamaica Plain complex that houses the suite of Massachusetts testing labs, according to a report that found operations in the 17 other labs met industry standards. But the report concludes that years of budget cuts threaten quality at those labs.
The review, conducted in early October by the Association of Public Health Laboratories, concluded that leaders of the Hinton State Laboratory Institute need to restore two quality assurance officer positions eliminated during past budget cuts.
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Three dozen people dead of meningitis traced back to a Framingham company and hundreds more sickened by that company's compounded steroid mix, and this Association of Public Health Laboratories say stuff is just fineso at the state testing labs? Or is this report writer separating the state's labs from whatever Public Health Department entity that is supposed to inspect health industry facilities, including manufacturers? Might be that such a fine detail could be construed as good for Deeval's legacy.