Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
At trial, the plaintiff sought to introduce, pursuant to the "professional reliability" exception to the rule against hearsay, a report and opinion testimony of its expert witness, as well as the report of an independent laboratory upon which the expert's opinion was based (see generally Hambsch v New York City Tr. Auth.,
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