not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources lancaster laboratories news newspapers books scholar jstor free images october 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . october 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message lancaster laboratories inc. industry contract analytical services founded 1961 founder earl h. hess headquarters lancaster pennsylvania united states number of locations 2 area served worldwide services biopharmaceutical environmental sciences pharmaceutical revenue 115 million number of employees 1200 parent eurofins website http lancasterlabs.com lancaster laboratories inc. is one of the largest contract laboratories in the united states . they specialize in pharmaceutical and environmental analytical services . 1 headquartered near lancaster pennsylvania the company employs 1200 employees worldwide . 1 their clients include businesses industries and consultants in more than 30 countries including 19 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world . history edit lancaster laboratories was founded by dr. earl h. hess in 1961 as a 2 500 square foot 230 m2 lab with three employees 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 edit a b about who we are history of lancaster laboratories press release press release press release press release retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lancaster laboratories & oldid 558433104 categories companies based in lancaster pennsylvanialaboratory information management systemcontract research organizationshidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from october 2012all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from october 2012all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 june 2013 at 11 56 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view