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Department of Trade and Industry and Successors: Laboratory of the Government Chemist:...
Catalogue reference: PJ 10
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PJ 10
This series contains records of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, an executive agency within the DTI, relating to its terms of reference, strategy and future.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PJ 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Trade and Industry and Successors: Laboratory of the Government Chemist: Registered Files (LGC, TA, LAD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, an executive agency within the DTI, relating to its terms of reference, strategy and future.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also DSIR 26
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- LGC, TA, LAD series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Scientific and Industrial Research, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, 1959-1965
- Department for Trade and Industry, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, 1970-1974
- Department of Industry, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, 1974-1983
- Department of Trade and Industry, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, 1983-1996
- Ministry of Technology, Laboratory of the Government Chemist, 1965-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2013 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- This series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- 3.1.4 Regulation and support of economic activity by government, including industry, services, agriculture, transport, energy, trade, and employment and productivity.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The post of government chemist was created, responsible to the chancellor of the Exchequer as minister, and the laboratory was constituted as a separate Government Chemist's Department under the Treasury, though it was still frequently referred to as the Government Laboratory. The government chemist acquired statutory functions as an analyst or as a referee in cases of disputed analysis under such legislation as the Food and Drugs Acts and acts concerned with the use of chemically dangerous materials at work. Its headquarters were in central London, but it also maintained either a branch laboratory or a chemical station in a number of major ports.
The laboratory ceased to be a separate department in July 1959 when, following the recommendations of a committee under Sir Patrick Linstead, it was transferred to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research as the Laboratory of the Government Chemist. It later passed under the control of the Ministry of Technology in 1965, of the Department of Trade and Industry in 1970, of the Department of Industry in 1974 and the second Department of Trade and Industry in 1983, becoming an executive agency in 1989. The modern laboratory of the Government Chemist provided analytical, investigatory, and advisory services and policy support to government departments, public institutions, local authorities and other organisations. These services were concerned with revenue protection environmental protection, public health and consumer protection. The Laboratory also carried out research and development programmes for government and industry.
The Government Chemist continued to hold statutory functions as official referee analyst under various acts of Parliament, and co-ordinated government activity in analytical science.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12853764/
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