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Lancaster Laboratories Inc., is one of the largest contract laboratories in the United States. They specialize in pharmaceutical and environmental analytical services.〔(About who we are )〕 Headquartered near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the company employs 1200 employees worldwide.〔 Their clients include businesses, industries, and consultants in more than 30 countries, including 19 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. == History== Lancaster Laboratories was founded by Dr. Earl H. Hess in 1961 as a lab with three employees, intending to provide analytical services to area agribusinesses and industries.〔(History of Lancaster Laboratories )〕 The company claims several distinctions: * They were the first laboratory accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation * They prepared the first qualifications manual in the lab industry and implemented a total quality management system in 1989 * They pioneered computerized Laboratory Information Management Systems in the 1970s and designed a model automated system for retrieval and storage of samples — the only laboratory to have such a system Dr. Hess retired in 1995, selling Lancaster Laboratories to Thermo TerraTech. The company was again sold in 2000 to Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison and yet again in August 2005 to Fisher Scientific.〔(Press Release )〕 Fisher Scientific was acquired by Thermo Electron in 2007 to form Thermo Fisher Scientific.〔(Press Release )〕 Eurofins_Scientific acquired the company in 2011.〔(Press Release )〕 Dr. J. Wilson Hershey serves as Chairman of the Board. Tim S. Oostdyk serves as President.〔(Press Release )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lancaster Laboratories」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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