APA News
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Glasgow APA lab introduces schoolchildren to water sampling
08 November 2013
Glasgow Scientific Services carried out a visit to Crookston Castle Primary School in Pollok at the request of Class teacher Sarah-Jane Caldwell to carry out some water sampling of the nearby Levern water as part of the Comenius project.
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Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC) and Edinburgh Scientific Services Share Knowledge of Real Time-PCR Legionella Method
05 November 2013
Dr Lorraine Mackenzie, Microbiology Services Manager at Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC) visited Edinburgh Scientific Services to learn about their fast Real Time PCR (RT-PCR) test method for Legionella in water.
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Food Fraud Highlighted at APA Conference
31 October 2013
Public Analysts met in Liverpool last week to discuss food fraud and food security. Delegates at the Association of Public Analysts’ conference listened to public analysts and representatives from the food industry and government talking about the fallout from the horse meat scandal and the lessons that can be learned in order to detect or prevent future food scares.
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Edinburgh Scientific Services assist investigation of chemical suicide
30 October 2013
Edinburgh Scientific Services acting as a scientific advisor recently assisted three different services in dealing with an unfortunate double chemical suicide at the Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh.
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National Audit Office questions whether there will be sufficient analytical capacity to respond to future incidents.
11 October 2013
The National Audit Office Report highlights the loss of intelligence, confusion and the rate of decline of the public analyst network as creating a potential risk of insufficient capacity or capability to respond to a future incident. Click link below to read the report in full National Audit Office Report
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MPs to debate lessons from recent food scandals.
10 October 2013
A Government Committee has expressed concern about the fall in number of Public Analysts and has called for local authorities to be required to take food samples. The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee will debate two of its recent reports on Contamination of Beef Products] and on Food Contamination, along with the Government responses to each of these reports on Thursday 17 October in Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster at 3:00 pm.
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