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Fifth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 29 March 2023
Selvarani Elahi MBE, deputy Government Chemist, formed part of the team tasked with the review of the activity of the National Food Crime Unit in 2022
The Government Chemist Conference will take place on 20-21 June 2023 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London with remote attendance options
Fourth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 28 September 2022
The Government Chemist is running a survey to evaluate the economical, industrial and social benefits of the Government Chemist Programme
This e-seminar describes best practice in screening for GMOs in consignments of rice and rice products originating from China
The Food Authenticity Network has created a new information resource base for stakeholders
The Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity is a strategic partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and the NML at LGC
E-seminar covering issues surrounding the use of CBD in food supplements and difficulties likely to be encountered in their analytical testing
Third webinar in the Quarterly Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 19 January 2022
This e-seminar, by Cathal Henigan, Purchasing Director at Valeo Foods UK, will provide an introduction to the subject of the global honey supply chain
The GC team collaborated with experts to develop quantitative risk assessment guidance for food allergens
The UK Government Chemist team has recently had two significant scientific papers published in Nature Portfolio Journal, npj-Science of Food, highlighting the increasing complexity of honey authentication
This e-seminar provides an introduction to NGS instrumentation and applications employed with food safety, authenticity, and quality analysis.
The Government Chemist and his team contributed to a POSTnote on genome edited food crops
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has now published its advice on consumer cannabidiol (CBD) to which the GC team has contributed with a series of activities
This e-seminar was compiled by Benjamin C Remington, PhD, and follows on from the e-seminar, “An Introduction to Food Allergen Risk Assessment"
Defra has issued notices for traders on importing requirements coming into place during 2022
Darshna Vyas will talk about the impact of COVID-19 on agricultural sustainability and explore how genomics can play its part in building resilience for the future
A new reporting tool is available for reporting cases of food allergy, intolerance or coeliac disease
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