1. These allegations highlight the need for meaningful random, unannounced, spot audits conducted by accredited truly independent third party Quality Assurance and ISO trained/certified Quality Lab Auditors. Not CLIA, ASCLD or even the state.
2. There is a need for meaningful third party method and protocol validation for all tests conducted in a forensic environment before a single result makes it way into Court.
4. Additionally, we must insist that all results are reported in a metrologically accepted manner with all sources of error identified and accounted for in an empirical way and reported in a true uncertainty budget.
5. We must also insist on meaningful double blind and truly random proficiency based testing monitored by third parties that are above question and reproach not just for the lab in general, but for each and every technician in the lab.
6. Everything must be totally transparent, documented and most of all traceable.

This is science. What happens now in Courts all across the United States is not science. It is a presentation of science fiction.

For as long as we in America accept the Wizard of Oz hiding behind the curtain of secrecy when it comes to police/Government based forensic science in America, there can be no truly meaningful assurance as the validity of the procedures used, the specificity of the results reported let alone the accuracy and the precision of the expressed opinions/conclusions of the technicians.

Who disagrees?