APA News
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Retirement of Steve Appleton
25 July 2018
Steve Appleton and colleagues were treated to a bespoke cake to mark his retirement from Aberdeen Scientific Services last week. The cake, creation of Karen Maddison, a colleague of Steve’s from his days in Durham and an MChemA candidate in the laboratory, is a work of imagination and does not depict any actual event in Steve’s career!
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The Birmingham Food Council
06 July 2018
The Birmingham Food Council which, amongst other things, commissioned "The Hand That Feeds" a musical about food crime, has published its response to the Draft London Food Strategy. The response includes a section on the safety, assurance and integrity of food supplies which highlights the impacts of the decline in local authority enforcement activity."
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Retirement of Ron Ennion
02 July 2018
Public Analyst, Ron Ennion retired at the end of June. Ron worked in the public analyst profession for more than forty years, starting in the Chester lab in 1975, which eventually became part of Eurofins in 2001. The APA wishes Ron a long and happy retirement.
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Public Analyst's results help secure £1.6m proceeds of crime order against teeth whitening traders
09 June 2018
Welsh Public Analysts "Minton Treharne & Davies" have been involved in the assessment and testing of the tooth whitening products, and provided supporting Statements of Witness in a case where three members of a Cheshire-based family were prosecuted for selling unsafe teeth whitening products. After a three-year nationwide investigation by Powys County Council, the family have been ordered to pay back £1.6m that they made from their criminality of face prison. The teeth whitening products did not comply with safety laws and were unsafe due to harmful levels of hydrogen peroxide, with one victim receiving hospital treatment for burns after using a product. Tests showed the product to contain 11% hydrogen peroxide – some 110 times the legal limit for products that are sold directly to consumers.
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West Yorkshire Loses its Public Analyst Laboratory
01 June 2018
Only three months after the closure of Staffordshire Scientific Services the Public Analyst function at West Yorkshire Joint Services ceased at Easter. The laboratory will continue to operate but the two Public Analyst posts, together with four others, were made redundant.
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PASS appoints Michelle Evans as newest team member
23 May 2018
The Public Analyst Scientific Services (PASS) team has welcomed Michelle Evans as its newest member. Michelle is MChemA qualified and joined as Public Analyst following a 30-year career with Staffordshire County Council.
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