News
30-January 2012 – LGC and
NIM China sign collaboration agreement on new food and clinical
research
LGC
announces collaboration agreement with
China’s National Institute of
Metrology
LGC, an international
science-based company and the UK’s designated National Measurement
Institute for chemical and bioanalytical measurement, has signed a
research and reference material collaboration agreement with NIM,
China’s National Institute of Metrology and technical centre for
legal metrology. This agreement marks the beginning of a key
collaborative programme to develop new measurement capabilities in
life science, food safety and clinical applications and reference
material distribution.
The collaboration brings
together specialist skills and knowledge through staff exchanges to
deliver a work programme in technically challenging areas including
size-based characterisation of nanoparticles in food,
quantification of specific allergenic peptides in food, and the
development of new clinical reference methods for trace analytes in
blood and infectious agents for food and clinical applications.
The agreement also
establishes the basis for reference material distribution of
selected NIM materials in Europe through LGC Standards and LGC
Standards materials, mainly for the food and environmental sectors,
through NIM in P.R. China and Hong Kong SAR. It also sets out the
potential for collaboration in provision of proficiency testing
(PT) schemes.
The signing of this
collaboration agreement signals a further milestone in LGC’s growth
of its Beijing and Shanghai offices and plans for accelerated
expansion of activities in the region.
The agreement between LGC
and NIM was signed in Beijing by David Richardson, Chief Executive
of LGC, and Zhang Yukuan, Director of NIM.
Commenting on the
announcement, David Richardson said: “It is a great pleasure to
have signed this agreement with such a leading National Measurement
Institute to develop mutual capability and enable strong technical
cooperation to enhance skills and reference materials of relevance
to both of our countries. LGC is working with NMIs globally to
improve the international comparability of measurement for the
benefit of free trade, underpinning of regulation and support for
innovation.”
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