# Public Analyst Training 2024

> A sourced UK public sector contract award published by Food Standards Agency.

## Key facts

- Buyer: [Food Standards Agency](/buyers/the-food-standards-agency/contract-awards)
- Supplier: [LGC Limited](/suppliers/lgc/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £59,998
- Award date: 14 May 2024
- Published: 19 June 2024
- Contract start: 1 June 2024
- Contract end: 31 March 2025
- Stage: awarded
- Notice ID: dedb1560-304a-4655-9db8-b51910c16a75-760552
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-ba8d9ef5-1a4d-4c5c-90b2-f9ab83f70e81

## Description

The Food Safety Act 1990 requires LAs to appoint PAs for chemical and compositional food sampling in a legal context and provide a CoA which is admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings\. The MChemA qualification needed to become a PA is rightly challenging to achieve as it ensures extensive knowledge in chemical analysis and competence in providing an expert legal opinion on the quality, safety and probity of food\. A lack of PAs means that analyses that require the PA to undertake the test themselves, due to requiring specialised training, will have a very limited capacity\. Moreover, PA OLs who lose their PA due to retirement, or fail to appoint one, will lose their ability to test samples under the Food Safety Act 1990 leading to an inability for them to take enforcement action\. Funding the training and continued professional development \(CPD\) of PAs and providing funding to backfill desk analyst roles in the laboratory could improve capacity and capability in PA OLs as outlined in the FSA Board Paper 2022\. Providing such a succession plan will guarantee the future of the PA profession and the PA OL system\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/dedb1560-304a-4655-9db8-b51910c16a75-760552)