SureScreen Diagnostics is 20 Years Young
Happy Birthday to us! August 8th 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of SureScreen Diagnostics. Back in 1996, the era of the Spice Girls, Independence Day, and Dolly the Sheep, SureScreen struck out into a new market, approaching HM Prisons to put in place methods for detecting inmates who were abusing illicit drugs. Since those early […]
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SureScreen Open the Alan Campbell Building at the Morley Retreat
July 28th 2016 saw the opening of SureScreen’s new DNA laboratory by local Derbyshire MP Pauline Latham. The building, an ancient Grade 2 listed Threshing Barn based at the beautiful Morley Retreat in Morley, has been extensively restored and is now a state-of-the-art facility. Named after the directors’ grandfather who bought the barn, the Alan […]
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The History (and Future) of Breath Alcohol Testing
Breath Alcohol testing has been a large part of law enforcement for many years. If you are in control of a car and are involved in an accident or stopped as part of a random check, you will be breathalysed using some form of breathalyser. This is to ensure that you aren’t over the legal […]
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Legal high ban comes into force
A blanket ban on legal highs has come into force in the UK on the 26th of May 2016. Laws that criminalise the sale, supply, production, and distribution of new psychoactive substances (NPS) began at midnight. The demand for cheaper drugs that are quick to produce and readily available has led back room chemists and designer drug makers to synthesize […]
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