L@b Brief November-December 2025

10 December 2025

Welcome to the November/December 2025 L@b Brief.

Read the full L@b Brief here.

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INSIDE this ISSUE

UK news: Government to speed up phase out of animal testing... MHRA smashes illicit weight loss medicine lab in Nottingham... AI hallucination blamed for failed tender bid… Choose your productivity gain at the GAMBICA conference... Critical minerals strategy aims to find security for UK manufacturing... Worries recede slightly for suppliers of products containing PFAS... Proposal to lengthen phase out of FGASs...

Lab construction and upgrade projects: Oxford, Liverpool, Glasgow, Norwich, Manchester, Sweden, Ireland and USA…

Export news: New event director seeks to slow long downhill slide at Medica… US lab companies shell-shocked by impact of Trump tariffs… Sanctions designations moved to a single list

Also inside...

GAMBICA events and Industry events – full resume of 2026 exhibitions