Jobs lost as paternity testing firm goes under

NEARLY 50 jobs have been lost at two Manchester-based drug and paternity testing businesses, which have been placed into administration.

Trimega Laboratories, Ingemino Testing, both based at Blackley north Manchester, have entered administration along with a sister company, Screensafe UK of Stafford.

Paul Flint and Brian Green, restructuring partners at KPMG in Manchester were appointed administrators to the three businesses on Monday. All were previously  part of Ingemino Testing Solutions Ltd, which is not affected by the inolvency.

Screensafe UK, which provides drug and alcohol testing services to the workplace market, has been sold to to Abergavenny-headquartered Synergy Health Laboratory Services.

A total of 16 employees have transferred over to the new owner as part of the sale. No financial details weredisclosed.
 
Trimega Laboratories, which operates out of Blackley, Greater Manchester, provides legally defensible testing that supports critical decisions in child protection cases, offering services such as hair, drug, alcohol and steroid testing, along with DNA relationship testing services.

Ingemino Testing Services – also based in Blackley – operated as the laboratory company where the Screensafe and Trimega testing was conducted.
 
Mr Flint at KPMG said: “The paternity testing market has declined as a result of recent changes to the legal aid system. 

“Despite marketing the Trimega Laboratories and Ingemino Testing Services business as going concerns prior to our appointment, a buyer could not be found and unfortunately, a total of 49 redundancies have been made across these two businesses in Blackley.”