Biolab goes into administration

I was horrified the other day to go to the Biolab site in search of some information about a past conference to be met with the following announcement:

14th July 2022

Biolab Limited has gone into administration due to the delay by The Care Quality Commission in processing our application to transfer our business activities to our laboratory site in West London following an earlier temporary suspension.

We always remained highly confident that Biolab would reopen and invested heavily in relocating the business, retaining and retraining our employees, developing new and improved methods of work and updating our documentation, so this comes as a huge disappointment for us all, but as you’ll appreciate no business can continue indefinitely without an income.

We are no longer able to process any samples for testing.

Biolab is very proud of the help we have given to hundreds of thousands of patients over 37 years, and we thank everyone for their phenomenal support and loyalty over the years, and for the hundreds of messages of support we have received in recent months.

We wish you all the very best for the future.

As anyone who has had any dealings with nutritional or environmental medicine will know they were the go to lab for nutritional biochemistry testing. They had also pioneered many new tests and new treatments from which those suffering from obscure and longterm health issues had benefitted.

And, over the last few years they had hosted some excellent conferences and seminars – such as the Long Covid conference masterminded by Dr Rachel Nicholl a few months ago and the Mitchondria Day, also organised by Dr Nicholl that I reported on last autumn.

I had held off reporting this sad news in the hopes that I might hear something about a rescue plan but as yet, nothing has emerged for the laboratory at least. Fortunately the Alliance for Natural Health has stepped in and engaged Dr Nicholl to help deliver their education programme, which will include more events so at least the conference future is relatively secure.

I will report further if and when I hear anything.