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Salem was laboratory services manager for about a month at PerkinElmer's testing laboratory in
She was among employees who told Sacramento TV station CBS13 this month that the laboratory was making unauthorized changes to improve its FDA-approved testing procedures, using patient samples.
“We cannot do experiments while we are testing patient samples,”
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PerkinElmer's lawsuit doesn’t make any specific mention of those allegations. It alleges that Salem unlawfully accessed the company computer system and forwarded information to her personal email account this month on “testing procedures, protocol, and results.”
The lawsuit also contends that in January, Salem had accepted a job with a different competitor laboratory, although the lawsuit doesn’t contend that she passed on any confidential information to the firm.
It wasn't immediately clear whether Salem had an attorney to speak on her behalf. A working phone number for her couldn't immediately be found.
On Monday state officials said an inspection of the laboratory in December — before the other allegations came up — found “significant deficiencies” at the laboratory, blaming them, in part, on the rapid ramp-up they required under the terms of the state contract.
Based on findings from an inspection in early September, a fraction of 1% of the more than 1.5 million tests processed at the
“We have already addressed the issues that emerged in the early days since the
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