Cansford Laboratories has made a major funding in gear at its in-house drug and alcohol testing laboratory in Cardiff, as a part of its persevering with improvement programme.
The funding has been made in a brand new Robotic Computerized Liquid Pipetting Handler (RALPH) machine which is able to assist the lab work extra effectively by permitting operators to carry out separate processes, concurrently.
Cansford Laboratories has one present RALPH instrument and by including a second automated handler, known as ‘Raphine’ by the Cansford crew, will enhance productiveness and improve capability. The brand new instrument may even enable totally different volumes of chemical substances or samples to be pipetted utilizing robotics.
The automated course of will scale back the requirement for lab employees to carry out repetitive duties and also will implement a systemic course of by which all samples are analysed. By eradicating among the human interplay with every pattern analysed, there will probably be an enchancment in reproducibility of study and within the accuracy of the outcomes issued by the laboratory.
Cansford Laboratories performs hair and blood testing for a wide range of purchasers, working primarily with household legal professionals and social employees, serving to to help custody and care instances. This heightens the necessity for check outcomes to be as correct as potential and so funding on this space is of explicit significance.
James Nutt, laboratory supervisor at Cansford Laboratories, says,
“We’re investing within the newest expertise to assist hold us on the forefront of the testing trade by bettering our processes. We now have grown a fame for being the go-to laboratory for reliability and for the quickest turnaround for testing within the UK. However at no level can this come at the price of high quality. This funding will enable us to take care of this degree of service while enabling our hard-working technicians to make finest use of their talent units within the lab. We’re frequently innovating the processing of samples to make it as streamline as it may be, while sustaining the top quality requirements we’re required to uphold attributable to our dedication to trade rules.”
