Lancaster Laboratories

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Lancaster Laboratories Inc., is one of the largest contract laboratories in the

Lancaster Laboratories was founded by Dr. Earl H. Hess in 1961 as a 2,500-square-foot (230 m²) lab with three employees, including the first lab tech, John Snyder. Earl Hess opened the company intending to provide analytical services to area agribusinesses and industries.[2]

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.^[3] Fisher Scientific was acquired by Thermo Electron in 2007 to form Thermo Fisher Scientific.^[4] Eurofins Scientific acquired the company in 2011.^[5]

Dr. J. Wilson Hershey serves as chairman of the board. Tim S. Oostdyk serves as president.^[6]

See also