Environmental-Safety Tests Are ‘Falsified’. “The federal

authorities said today that

thousands of environmental safety

tests conducted at Superfund

locations, landfills and other hazardous

waste sites from 1994 to 1997 will

have to be repeated because the

company that performed the tests

falsified the results…Federal prosecutors announced today that 13 former

employees of the London-based company, Intertek Testing

Services, had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Dallas

and charged with up to 30 counts of fraud and lying to the

government. Prosecutors said that the test results were

falsified to save the company time and money….The test results mean that some sites thought to be safe

from carcinogens and other contaminants might hold harmful

materials, the federal authorities said, though they

emphasized that none of the sites so far retested had been

found to be a health hazard.” New York Times