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This e-seminar provides general guidance and best practice for selecting and using a service provider to undertake NGS projects
Workshop providing advice, guidance and best practice on the application of complementary analytical techniques for the detection of allergens in spices
Seminar describing the principles of and best practice guidelines for the design of qPCR assays.
E-seminar produced by the Government Chemist team with funding from Defra on the topic of real time PCR applications for food testing
The Government Chemist responded to FSA's consultation seeking stakeholders’ views on the implementation of the Official Controls Regulation
The Government Chemist contributed to a conference organised by the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast
The Agri-Food chain stakeholder team at Defra has shared guidance to ensure that businesses are ready for leaving the EU on 31 October
Standards published by the CEN during April and August 2019, some of which are relevant to chemical measurement in support of food and animal feed regulation
The Government Chemist is collaborating with the Institute of Global Food Security to run a one day conference at Queen's University Belfast on 21 October
Selvarani Elahi and Michael Walker, from the Government Chemist team, hosted a visit by Sean Daly and Rachel Gullaksen of the NFCU on 14 August
Selvarani Elahi and Prof. Chris Elliott were invited to attend the Ghana Science Association conference and a workshop on rice integrity and managing food fraud
The Government Chemist Conference will take place on 24-25 June 2020 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London
The Government Chemist and Queen's University Belfast have published a paper highlighting current analytical difficulties in authentication of coffee and possible solutions
The Government Chemist and the National Measurement Laboratory hosted a meeting of the University of Manchester Food Allergy Network, MFAN, on 3 July
The Government Chemist and the National Measurement Laboratory were pleased to support the annual lecture organised by the Institute of Food Science & Technology
Government has announced plans to introduce a new allergen labelling law to help further protect the UK’s two million people living with food allergy
The UK National Measurement Laboratory supports the Institute of Food Science and Technology Lecture for 2019
Dr Michael Walker, Head of the Office of the Government Chemist, has been appointed as an independent expert to the FSA's Committee on Toxicity (COT)
The origins of the Standard Additions and Internal Standards methods
7 June 2019 is the first World Food Safety Day
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