Quality Assurance failures at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory

Quality Assurance failures at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Laboratory crisis that concerns blood ethanol content by HS-GC-FID teaches us yet again the critical role that quality assurance (QA) is supposed to play in forensic laboratories. It is part of any quality management system. In all laboratories, the QA officer should be someone who is wholly independent […]