Blog - In pregnant women and infants iodine is of particular importance as it plays a critical role in brain development. The primary sources of iodine for most people are milk and dairy products but due to increases in dairy intolerance and changes in diet, milk-products are being increasingly substituted for non-milk alternatives.
20 March 2018News - The book, commissioned following UK horsemeat incident in 2013, provides fundamental understanding of modern DNA techniques applied to food authenticity and adulteration testing
16 October 2019Blog - Both method validation and uncertainty estimation are critical activities for testing laboratories, as they form part of the quality management framework required to ensure and demonstrate that test results are fit-for-purpose.
28 January 2020News - LGC is delighted that the production of its first ever multi-allergen reference material kit containing five common allergens (milk, egg, almond, hazelnut, walnut), traceable to the SI (International System of Units), has been confirmed within the scope of its ISO 17034 accreditation.
16 October 2020News - The National Measurement Laboratory (NML), hosted at LGC, welcomes the UK government’s announcement of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), the new independent research body to fund high-risk, high-reward scientific research
22 February 2021Blog - 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 2021News - We're pleased to launch the Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity, a strategic partnership to enhance and future-proof the UK agrifood industry through the development and application of innovative scientific-measurement solutions and digital technologies for greater assurance of the sustainability, reliability, safety and productivity of inherent supply chains.
26 May 2022News - The first step in a partnership between the University of Leeds and the NML, the laboratory was launched on Friday, 31 March 2023 at a special event hosted Nexus, which features talks from Professors Julian Braybrook and Nick Plant, as well as a visit from the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin.
04 April 2023News - The National Measurement Laboratory (NML) at LGC recently appointed their second Academic in Residence, Dr Zahra Rattray, based at the NML’s Centre for Advanced Measurement Research and Health Translation at the University of Strathclyde.
23 April 2024News - Developing reference methods to characterise gene mutations in breast cancer. NML collaborate with NIM China under the GenomeMET project.
07 October 2024