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Analytical
Chemistry is a truly pervasive science underpinning the chemical
and pharmaceutical industries, public health, control of the environment
and engineering. The analytical sector in the UK is currently estimated
to have a £7 billion annual turnover and employs about 200,000
people.
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Background
History - In
1999, the North West Region of the Analytical Division of the RSC
celebrated its 75th anniversary. Our parent organisation, the RSC,
is the scientific and professional body representing chemists in
the UK and has approximately 47,000 members, over 9,000 of whom
are members of the Analytical Division which is currently sub-divided
into nine regions.
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The
NW Region was a founder member of what has become the Analytical Division
and, with some 1,100 members spread throughout the Region from Carlisle
to Mid-Wales, has one of the largest memberships of the Division.
Our main
remit is to promote analytical science in the Region which is achieved
through a variety of activity involving school children, students
in higher education, practicing chemists in industry, academia, government and independent
laboratories and retired chemists.
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