Randox Laboratories
 Randox Laboratories  (Pharmaceutical company)   | |
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| Founder | Peter FitzGerald |
| Interest of | Owen Paterson |
| In 2020 given a £133 million contract to produce "Covid testing kits" without prior publication of a call for competition in sweetheart deal. | |
Randox Laboratories is a company in the in vitro diagnostics industry, developing diagnostic solutions for hospitals, clinical, research and molecular labs, food testing, forensic toxicology, veterinary labs and life sciences. Randox develops, manufactures and markets diagnostic reagents and equipment for laboratory medicine, with a distribution network of 145 countries.[1][2]
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Test for COVID-19
Randox claims that its Vivalytic and Investigator analysers aid identification of the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) strain.
In March 2020, Metro News reported that Randox has been selling a rapid ‘COVID-19 home testing kit’ priced at £120 which purports to be ‘the only test in the world that can identify the lethal strain and differentiate between other non-lethal variants with the same symptoms’.[3]
On 8 August 2020, Hugh Pym tweeted:
- "Medical regulator MHRA recalling up to 750,000 unused Randox coronavirus testing kits sent out to care homes and for individual home testing because of issues over safety standards/certification. Health provider Randox sent out total of 1.3 million kits."[4]
£133 million contract
On 11 May 2020, The Guardian reported that the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) had awarded Randox a £133 million contract to produce testing kits to help respond to the coronavirus pandemic. It was awarded “without prior publication of a call for competition”, according to details of the contract seen by The Guardian. Under its contract, Randox has been paid to carry out tests, both posted to individuals at home and administered at testing centres, as part of Matt Hancock’s pledge to reach the target of 100,000 tests a day.[5]
£480 million contract
On 18 February 2021, Will Thorpe tweeted:
- "Amazing stroke of luck for Tory MP Owen Paterson after Randox, the company that pays him £100k a year as an adviser, is awarded £480m worth of Covid contracts without tender."[6]
Tory consultant
Randox has employed Owen Paterson, a former Conservative cabinet minister and leading Brexit supporter, as a consultant since 2015. He is currently paid £100,000 a year at the rate of £500 an hour.
References
- ↑ "18 March 2011 – Foster announces 242 new jobs at Randox Laboratories"
- ↑ "Proteome Sciences Licenses Stroke Biomarkers to Randox"
- ↑ "Tory MP paid £100,000 a year by company selling £120 private coronavirus tests"
- ↑ "Medical regulator MHRA recalling up to 750,000 unused Randox coronavirus testing kits"
- ↑ "Healthcare firm advised by Owen Paterson won £133m coronavirus testing contract unopposed"
- ↑ "Amazing stroke of luck for Tory MP Owen Paterson after Randox, the company that pays him £100k a year as an adviser, is awarded £480m worth of Covid contracts without tender"
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