all of these originated from dougway. we now know over the past 12 years 86 laboratories in 20 states, d.c. and seven foreign countries received directly from doug way inactivated samples that contained live spores. in addition the cdc informed us an additional 106 labs received secondary transfers from some of the original 86 direct recipient labs. this brings the total to 192 laps in all 50 states, d.c. and the three trts of guam, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. the root causes of the incident vulted -- resulted in key findings including that the systemic issue is the lack of validated standards to guide the development of protocols processes and quality assurance measures and the resulting recommendations are grouped in three broad categories being enhanced quality control programs, establish testing protocols based on relevant scientific data and improve program management. the department is committed to ensuring this doesn't happen again and we'll implement the recommendations in the report and further outli

dougway's largely a production facility. the others are more research facilities. so one size may not fit all. but there's definite lessonsque we can learn from this. and whenever possible we will standardize. >> how about concerns about miscommunication to from the laboratories to the senior leadership? >> some recommendations have been made, we're going to be more vigorous. the dod instruction that was mentioned earlier that will include aspects that will bring all of the reporting forward to a higher level. for example the 2007 incident, if that were to happen today, that wouldn't just remain at dougway or the immediate command. it would come all the way up to a central office within the department. we're in the process now of pulling in all of the inspector general reports cdc reports from all of the laboratories up to my office and reviewing all of those to see if there's indicators and lessons to be learned. >> following my colleague from west virginia. so far we've been extremely fortunate, these incidents at dougway have not led to broader public health or

of the total batches in dougway's inventory, more than half tested positive. 17 of 33 batches of dougway were tested positive. now, obviously, when over half of those anthrax batches that were presumed to be inactivated instead proved to contain live spores, we have a major problem. and the numbers confirm this judgment. at this point we know that over the last 12 years 86 laboratories in 20 states. the district of columbia and seven foreign countries ultimately received what was supposedly inactivated spores that were live and all originated as i said from dougway puden grau. i expect those numbers to increase. the 86 labs that we reported today included all inactivated anthrax samples that were received directly from dougway by laboratory. however, these receiving labs could in turn send samples to other laboratories to help them end their procedures or testing and cdc is responsible for tracking those secondary and tertiary shipments. and we expect to hear the results of their work very very soon. those will increase our numbers. we will continue to work with cdc and update our websit