National Enforcement Investigations Center

The area of laboratory fraud and fraudulent data reporting are areas of great concern to both EPA and other environmental regulatory agencies. The use of computers in both the laboratory and the self-reporting process has opened up a whole new area of environmental investigations. The potential for computers to be used to generate and manipulate fraudulent data as well as to be used to compare actual data versus operating logs, for example, is increasing. The EDA team recovers, analyzes, examines and compares electronic evidence for the purpose of uncovering potential data fraud violations.

The National Enforcement Investigations Center personnel participates at the Annual Science Forums by presenting information regarding use of environmental application of laboratory techniques and environmental data integrity as related to Laboratory Fraud.

• Science Forum 2005
• Science Forum 2004