About LGC
LGC is an international science-based company and market leader in analytical, forensic and diagnostic services and reference standards. LGC operates in socially responsible fields underpinning the safety, health and security of the public and the regulation of industry, for UK government departments and blue chip clients.
LGC has four divisions - LGC Forensics, LGC Genomics, LGC Standards and LGC Science & Technology, which includes specialist laboratories delivering contracts under the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and supporting LGC's designated role as the UK's National Measurement Institute for chemical and bioanalysis.
With headquarters in Teddington, South West London, the LGC Group employs over 1,600 staff in 36 laboratories and centres across Europe and in the US, India and China. Privatised in 1996 and now majority-owned by funds managed by Bridgepoint, LGC was founded 170 years ago as the Laboratory of the Government Chemist - a statutory function maintained by LGC today.