Dr. Karin Denton:

We learned from a number of laboratories that it was for reasons not like that. Very often, they were small with a small number of members of staff who retired or left for natural reasons. In one case, a senior member of staff died. They were largely, but not entirely, small laboratories that wound down through natural staff turnover. The San Antonio laboratory is different in that it was established, we were told, to cope with the additional capacity for this particular contract. Once the contract was no longer being provided by CPL, the San Antonio laboratory was closed. There were a variety of reasons but as far as I recall, we were never told or shown any evidence, or found any evidence, that any of these laboratories had been closed because of complaints or the adverse findings at the time.