Although UK law bans genetic modification of embryos for clinical uses, it is permitted in research laboratories under licence from the fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority HFEAA) – provided the embryos are destroyed after 14 days.
The latest decision means the laboratory's testing licence will be removed just over nine months before the start of the World Cup.
Genetics laboratories require a licence and only a few are even trying to get one.
In this study, we could not achieve the threshold of analytic validity, which in this case meant the test had to be performed in a licenced and accredited laboratory as required by legislation.
All laboratory infections were carried out under UK Home Office licence and appropriate veterinary supervision.
Studies were performed in accordance with the UK Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 regulations for the handling and use of laboratory animals, and followed an Ethics Committee and Home Office approved project licence (PPL No: 70/7335 Improving the therapy of rheumatoid arthritis).
All procedures involving laboratory animals were approved by the Canadian Council on Animal Care, by a licence from the UK Government Home Office (80/2042), or by the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, USA.
Such a regulatory body would have responsibility for issuing licences for using ART in a clinical, laboratory, storage or research faculty.
Structured CPD is mandatory for career grade doctors and scientists as part of the requirements for them to maintain their individual licence to practice and in order that the laboratory in which they work may be accredited.
The parts of this study based at the anatomical laboratory were carried out under the auspices of the Human Tissue Act licence held at the facility.
All procedures were carried out following local ethical review (Imperial College London, London, UK), under a licence from the UK Home Office and followed the 'principles of laboratory animal care' (NIH Publication No. 86 23, revised 1985).
