COVID-19 testing is becoming more common in the UK as, along with mass vaccinations, it helps to open up society at a time when restrictions are easing. A university is trialling the use of saliva ...

Proficiency testing (PT) is a means of external quality assessment that is one of the main facets of the Chemiluminescence Immunoassay(CLIA) quality system for non-waived testing. It is a valuable ...

More than a fifth of meat sample tests in 2017 found DNA from animals not on the labelling, the BBC has learned. Out of 665 results from England, Wales and Northern Ireland collected by the Food ...

The government should ban 25 pesticides which contain so-called "forever chemicals", campaigners have said, as the potentially harmful toxins were found in more than half of the tested food and drinks ...

Queen Mary researchers led a team which accessed data about each self-sample to estimate the risk of significant disease being present. This process could reduce the number of women recalled for ...