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to Forensic Sciences in order to facilitate forensic investigations and hence as*urance of justice and rule of law, samples related to agricultural and industrial produce to ascertain safety and quality, samples related to paternity or se* identification in order to address to Forensic Sciences in order to facilitate forensic investigations and hence as*urance of justice and rule of law, samples related to agricultural and industrial produce to ascertain safety and quality, samples related to paternity or se* identification in order to address society concerns and samples related to environmental and occupational health for the protection of health and the environment. GCLA was founded in 1895 during the German colonization with H. Von Wissman as the German to Tanganyika. It has come a long way from its beginnings of conducting researches on Tropical diseases under the Chief Secretary's Office and thereafter to the Ministry of Health just after the 1st World War. Since independence of Tanganyika, GCLA has continued to operate as a department of the Ministry of health till 1999 when it changed its status to Government Chemist Laboratory Agency. The current status of GCLA being Government Chemist Laboratory Authority was acquired in 2016 when the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania enacted the law to establish the Authority under the Government Chemist Laboratory Authority Act, No. 8 of 2016. According to its establishing Act, the laboratory results issued by the GCLA are final and conclusive as they are generated from specialized equipment for laboratory an*lysis such as Liquid Energy Dispersive X Ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF), Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Real time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Genetic an*lyzer, Spectrophotometer (UV-VIS) and Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS). Furthermore, GCLA is ISO 9001:2008 certified and ISO 17025:2015 Accredited and hence the results generated are nationally and internationally recognized. In addition, GCLA being the sole regulator