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
Novel tools to help boost global tomato breeding

News - New assay library for tomato genotyping launched

25 March 2015
LGC's Government Chemist team responds to the FSA review of food standards delivery

News - LGC's Government Chemist team recently responded to the Food Standards Agency review on how food standards work is delivered across England, Wales and Northern Ireland

31 December 2018
LGC and Queen’s University Belfast researchers chart life of WWI chemist

News - Renowned chemists Michael Walker and Professor Duncan Thorburn Burns published new research on the life of World War I chemist Gordon Wickham Monier-Williams, famous for his food testing methods

17 July 2018
Government Chemist Conference to take place in June

News - The biennial Government Chemist conference will take place on 13- 14 June at BMA House and will provide an opportunity for regulators, policy makers, enforcement agencies, manufacturers, scientists and academia to discuss and learn about challenges affecting the security of the food chain

23 March 2018
Government Chemist offers APA validated postgraduate residential course

News - The Government Chemist team and the Association of Public Analysts Educational Trust organise an annual RSC-approved, fully residential week long postgraduate course on the analysis and examination of food and feed

21 February 2018
Government Chemist Annual Review 2016 available to download

News - The Government Chemist Annual Review provides highlights from the referee cases, advisory work and research carried out during the year

18 September 2017
Government Chemist team takes lead role in EU workshop

News - The three day event was attended by over 30 experts representing 19 EU member states and other countries as far afield as Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil

13 July 2017
Government Chemist programme represented at international event on food fraud and allergy

News - Michael Walker, of the Government Chemist Programme in LGC, delivered a keynote talk ‘Food detectives: what it takes to trace food fraud’

06 February 2017
LGC scientists invited to contribute to Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) publication

News - The article covers our leading government research in developing and validating methods and approaches for food authenticity, adulteration, quality and safety testing

22 December 2016