The lab, which was opened in partnership with Massachusetts-based diagnostics company PerkinElmer, has been beset with problems since the $25-million facility opened late last year.
California inspectors raised alarms earlier this year about whether staff were properly trained, how the lab was reporting its own processing errors and whether protocols that reduce the likelihood of contamination were being followed, all of which called into question the accuracy of tests at one of the largest testing facilities in the state.
The existence of the investigation in February was made public after a story by CBS 13 in Sacramento highlighted issues in the lab, with whistleblowers telling the station earlier this year that they saw lab techs sleeping or watching videos while processing nasal swabs and that unsupervised staff processed samples before completing required training.
The state’s public health department issued letters in February and April instructing Laboratory Director Adam Rosendorff to fix the failings, writing that state investigators “determined that the deficient practices of your laboratory pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety.” The Newsom administration released its report Monday, which largely downplayed the issues facing the lab, characterizing the deficiencies as those “routinely found in laboratory inspections,” and said each problem had been corrected. The report said California’s public-private lab is a model other states should emulate.
In October 2020, Newsom toured the newly constructed facility in Valencia that he said would create 700 new jobs in Southern California when it reached full capacity. State officials said the lab was built to ensure adequate testing in schools, for healthcare providers and in hard-to-reach communities using polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, diagnostic tests.
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