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About LGC

Company overview

LGC is an international leader in the laboratory services, measurement standards, reference materials and proficiency testing marketplaces. Our business is focused upon customers in: forensic science; pharmaceutical and biotechnology research, development and quality control; food chain and environmental surveillance and safety; life science, genomics, proteomics and basic research.

From our foundations as a measurement standards organisation, LGC offers products and services that enable our customers to achieve results in challenging analytical and bioanalytical assays, from single analysis through to high-volume automated testing programmes. LGC employs 1500 highly skilled staff and is a leading developer of new methods and standards in biotechnology and analytical measurement.

LGC is the UK’s designated National Measurement Institute for chemical and biochemical analysis , the National Reference Laboratory for a range of key areas, and is also the host organisation for the UK’s Government Chemist function.