Drug Probe At Randox

[Hymie]

This news story appears worrying to me, not only because Randox Testing Services drug results appear to have been compromised, but the following two statements from Randox (contained in the BBC news story) are contradictory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-39020384

Statement 1
The firm, based in Northern Ireland, said the investigation centres on the "manipulation of quality control data, which supports test results".

Statement 2
"There is no question mark over the RTS quality system or the robustness of our practices and procedures."

As someone who works with laboratory quality control systems, to me statement 1 means that there is a very worrying question mark over the RTS quality system and/or the robustness of their practices and procedures – and worse still, they seem oblivious to this fact.

[grumpy01]

This is very worrying especially if someone or more than one person is falsifying test results to enable police to fulfill preformance targets.The Mail on Sunday states that Greater Manchester Police said that "Two men a 47 year old and a 31 year old have been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and released on bail until March 6".

[jno]

it certainly sounds as if the two statements can't both be true doesn't it? Is there some way that the second one could mean something that doesn't contradict the first?

[Old_Geezer]

Alleged manipulation by others, and they have no question mark over their system. I guess the investigation will find one way or the other.