Two concluding points of emphasis follow. Compliance with
an authentication standard has no chance of success with-
out appropriate, unambiguous rewards and deterrents. The
zero tolerance policy provides the opportunity for success.
Second, is there any quality/integrity issue confronting the
science community more compelling than the issue of ram-
pant cross-contamination and misidentifi cation of cell lines
used for biomedical research? I don’t think so.