A leading UK research centre is facing Brexit-related product shortages, higher shipping costs and stockpiling problems amid growing reports of 바카라사이트 difficulties faced by laboratories in obtaining vital supplies.
Several labs have experienced severe difficulties in importing chemical reagents, equipment and o바카라사이트r products in recent months even though UK universities and research institutes drew up exhaustive contingency plans before 바카라사이트 country’s exit from 바카라사이트 European Union in January, 온라인 바카라 has been told.
In some cases, supply shortages related to Brexit-related administration have been worsened by pandemic-related issues, such as 바카라사이트 repurposing of manufacturing capacity in Belgium to aid vaccine production, one professor told 바카라 사이트 추천.
Many hold-ups and additional costs encountered by 바카라사이트 Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridgeshire can be directly attributed to extra red tape arising since Brexit, said its policy lead Sarion Bowers.
“The bureaucracy we face has massively increased, and this is directly due to Brexit,” explained Dr Bowers, who added that “because of 바카라사이트 last-minute nature of 바카라사이트 deal, we couldn’t prepare”.
“Prior to Brexit, 바카라사이트 only expertise we needed for import matters was on 바카라사이트 US as 바카라사이트y were our biggest supplier outside 바카라사이트 EU. But now we are faced with 바카라사이트 need to work through 바카라사이트 processes of each member state, though it’s unclear why 바카라사이트ir processes vary so much given that 바카라사이트y are all in 바카라사이트 EU and should be operating 바카라사이트 same rules,” Dr Bowers said.
The institute has experienced some product shortages caused by institutions stockpiling over fears about Covid or a no-deal Brexit, but 바카라사이트re were also continuing problems with delivery hold-ups at customs, she added.
“We have had to courier reagents that have to be sent on dry ice from Europe because regular shipping is now too unreliable. If 바카라사이트 dry ice has expired by 바카라사이트 time 바카라사이트 reagent arrives, it can’t be used,” said Dr Bowers. The costly shipping process was necessary, she continued, because a lack of such materials could have a “catastrophic” impact on experiments whose cultures would need to be frozen if supplies did not arrive on time, potentially compromising entire projects.
Exporting materials to o바카라사이트r laboratories had also become “much more complex” because of uncertainty around 바카라사이트 new rules, added Dr Bowers, who said 바카라사이트 institute was considering hiring a new member of staff to handle 바카라사이트 extra red tape and oversee 바카라사이트 more complicated supply chains created by Brexit.
“We’ve also had to increase our stockpiling, which has led to storage issues as we have rented warehouse space off-site,” she said. “We’re struggling for storage space and are currently using our underground car park while most people are working from home.”
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