How good are DNA testing laboratories? Who monitors or regulates them?
This is an issue of ongoing concern. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld with the Innocence Project, for example, have for the last several years advocated for a standardized accreditation for forensic laboratories interested in doing DNA testing. They have thus far been unsuccessful in their efforts. Unfortunately, as a result, far too many labs are not being monitored or regulated. That is, forensic laboratories have escaped the kind of rigorous internal and external scrutiny that is applied to scientific laboratories in general.
