Do you work in a lab? Are you concerned?

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An expert who wrote a scathing report on problems at a St. John's hospital lab has warned Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer inquiry that labs across the country are at risk.
Trish Wegrynowski found a series of fundamental lapses — from not refrigerating some samples to inconsistent procedures and inadequate training — in Eastern Health's pathology department when she was brought in to review procedures in September 2005.
Wegrynowski, a senior medical laboratory technologist at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, was recruited to review the pathology lab after senior medical staff learned the lab had produced inaccurate results in hormone receptor tests, used to guide treatment for breast cancer patients.
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