Rediscover Measurement for Recovery to help your business

Blog - Last summer, the National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at LGC, alongside other National Measurement System Laboratories, launched Measurement for Recovery (M4R) to help companies across the UK to recover in the challenging economic environment resulting from COVID-19, by giving them access to the expertise and resources of the UK’s leading measurement science laboratories.

22 July 2021
The 2021 Government Chemist Conference, beginning today, will explore the challenge of ensuring safe food for tomorrow’s world

Blog - Conference outlines how food safety, authenticity and sustainability impact on life quality and health outcomes

23 June 2021
Government Chemist team publish a tutorial review of cannabinoids

Blog - CBD edible products are now regulated as novel foods. They must also be compositionally safe and correctly labelled. To assist regulation and trade the Government Chemist has published a tutorial review of the common names, abbreviations, regulation, psychoactivity and analytical methodology for the principle cannabinoids.

19 May 2021
Earth Day: How to use science to protect our environment

Blog - Today is the 51st annual Earth Day, a global cause which started in 1970 to celebrate the environment and focus efforts to protect it.

22 April 2021
Happy British Science Week 2021!

Blog - British Science Week 2021 takes place from 5-14 March, and we've gathered some science content with this year's themes of #GenerationScience and #SmashingStereotypes

09 March 2021
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Blog - Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and this year’s theme is focused on the women at the forefront of the fight against COVID. We spoke with Dr Eloise Busby, whose work in the Molecular and Cell Biology team at the UK National Measurement Laboratory at LGC has supported SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostics

11 February 2021
Standards for the holiday season: toy safety

Blog - Christmas is right around the corner, and with it the promise of toys for children under the tree. Like any consumer product, toys need to be safe and comply with the toy regulation and corresponding toy safety standards. 

18 December 2020
Happy Mole Day! Join us in celebrating with a new podcast episode

Blog - Mole Day takes place each year on the 23 October and is observed by a very niche group of people, as it celebrates the mole, the unit for measuring atoms, molecules, or other specific particles

23 October 2020
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day with Lester W Strock award winner Heidi Goenaga-Infante

Blog - Ada Lovelace Day (13 Oct) is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

13 October 2020
Proficiency Testing in the COVID-19 pandemic

Blog - Proficiency testing (PT), often known as External Quality Assessment (EQA) in the clinical sector, allows laboratories to assess their measurement processes with test materials that we send them

17 July 2020