Understanding The Chain of Custody Form

Nancy Turner, president of Turner Laboratories, is on record as saying that "it is not standard policy" for Turner Labs to notify clients when contaminants are detected. 

Yet Steve Holland, director of UA risk management and safety, is on record as saying that the reason the second test for the sample taken April 26 was not run was because the lab failed to notify the UA that contaminants had been detected in the original sample in time for the UA to get the duplicate sample to the lab and have it tested prior to the 14 day shelf life of the sample expired.

The Chain of Custody form and the test results given to Cliff Russell illustrate the following:

• UA officials lied when they said there was no second test for the April 26 samples taken from Monitoring Well #5.

• UA officials lied when they said the reason there was no second test was because Turner Labs did not have a duplicate sample.

• UA officials lied when they said the reason that there was no second test was because Turner Labs did not call the UA in a timely fashion.

Tests on the samples, supposedly taken from Monitoring Well #5, showed no evidence of contamination.

By withholding a test result for  the April 26 sample and by having a clean sample from the purported re-sampling event of May 17. the UA has maintained that the detection of toluene was not confirmed and could be discounted as a "lab error" or some unexplained "anomaly".
 

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