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Nature 393, 105 (14 May 1998) | doi:10.1038/30077

EPA laboratories are 'still struggling' with change three years on

Tony Reichhardt

Three years after the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revamped its network of research laboratories, the labs are still struggling with the change, says the agency's Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC).Of particular concern is the scientific workforce, which it says is stretched thin and in some cases unsuited to its new tasks.