LGC experts talk to BBC World Service about fighting food crime

News - Michael Walker (Consultant Referee Analyst to the Government Chemist) is the first of a series of specialists who are interviewed about food fraud and the need for traceability in the food chain

01 April 2015
Novel tools to help boost global tomato breeding

News - New assay library for tomato genotyping launched

25 March 2015
Hua-Zhi and LGC cooperate to increase global rice production

News - Strategic cooperation for application of KASP™ and SNPLine™ in developing world-leading rice molecular breeding platform

25 March 2015
Spanish anti-doping supports Informed-Sport

News - Spain’s National Anti-Doping Organisation supports continued expansion of Informed-Sport into sports supplements marketplace

23 March 2015
LGC develops new meat reference materials to safeguard the food chain

News - Six new meat mixture reference materials to help protect consumers from food fraud 

24 February 2015
LGC’s robust plant sample kit improves data quality

News - Plant sample collection kit improves preservation of sample material and quality of genotyping and sequencing data

19 February 2015
LGC secures exclusive worldwide distributor deal for specialist marine biotoxins

News - LGC becomes exclusive worldwide distributor of CIFGA’s specialist marine biotoxin standards and reference materials.

16 February 2015
Michael Walker visits Hong Kong Accreditation Service

News - Michael Walker, Consultant to the Government Chemist at LGC, recently visited Hong Kong to work for a week with the Hong Kong Accreditation Service, HKAS, and the Hong Kong Government Laboratory, and participated in several technical events

26 January 2015
LGC and ATCC announce African distribution agreement

News - Extension to existing European agreement with ATCC

19 January 2015
Forensic analysis must be used to combat allergen fatalities

News - Investigations require early realisation that samples of the food and/or stomach contents from a post mortem examination should be retained and analysed and the supply chain must be rigorously examined

18 December 2014