The lab that conducted the initial tests that found arsenic in the water at the Jacob Riis Houses has allegedly admitted to introducing arsenic into the samples, causing the false results.
The NYCHA Jacob Riis Houses complex of apartments in the East Village neighborhood of New York on Saturday, July 5, 2014. The lab that provided test results indicating there was arsenic in the water at an NYCHA housing complex has issued a full retraction, according to the New York City Mayor's Office.
In a statement, the Mayor's office said that Environmental Monitoring and Technologies had called their initial results "incorrect" and admitted to being the ones that introduced arsenic into the samples, leading to the false results at the Jacob Riis Houses. "In the meantime, out of an abundance of caution, we are continuing to ask Riis Houses residents not to drink or cook with the water in their buildings until these final test results are returned and analyzed. We continue to provide clean water for anyone who needs it.""Environmental Monitoring and Technologies also today released results of a retest they initiated of the original samples and found the results to be negative for arsenic," the Mayor's office said.
"In the meantime, out of an abundance of caution, we are continuing to ask Riis Houses residents not to drink or cook with the water in their buildings until these final test results are returned and analyzed. We continue to provide clean water for anyone who needs it," the Mayor's office continued.
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