AWWA WQTC60641

This slide pesentation outlines information on deceptive practices, in both procedures and measurement, and manual integrations, detection, and deterrence of such practices. Topics covered include: potential areas of lab deception; OIG list of potentially fraudulent practices; examples of procedural deception; prevention practices; examples of measurement deception such as dry labbing and time travel; chromatographic peak information; manual integration; proper integration of co-eluting peaks; proper use of tangent skim technique; peak shaving and juicing; extreme example of improper calibration modification through juicing; real example (fake data); reasons for data manipulation/falsification; consequences of improper integration; and, detection and deterrence methods.