History
Milestones
12-09-2008- Successful accreditation for LGC’s new high
throughput PACE DNA laboratory in Runcorn
Derek Twigg, MP, officially opened LGC’s new
fully automated PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence) DNA platform at
its forensic laboratory in Runcorn, Cheshire in September 2008. The
introduction of the new facility represents an investment of over
£1m and marks a step-change in the DNA capability of LGC Forensics, a major division of the
international science-based company LGC. The new platform doubles
LGC’s capacity to analyse PACE DNA (mouth swab) samples for use in
connection with the National DNA Database - LGC now has the
capacity to analyse over 340,000 PACE DNA samples a year, more than
half of the samples currently generated annually in the UK.
The new PACE DNA facility has 30 staff
operating a shift system and the platforms have been designed to
run unattended between 9.00 pm and 7.00 am if submissions
require.
Link to press release.