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The Food Authenticity Network is recognised as a leading example of an integrity network at the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting in July 2018
Michael Walker, Referee Analyst, will present at the Anaphylaxis Campaign Corporate Conference in September 2018 on regulation of food allergens
Standards published by the CEN from June to July 2018, some of which are relevant to chemical measurement in support of food and animal feed regulation
The Government Chemist provided comments to the draft Food Strategy for London document produced by the London Mayor office
Researchers from the Government Chemist team and Queen’s University Belfast chart the life of distinguished food chemist Gordon Wickham Monier-Williams
Letter from the Government Chemist to the Food Standards Agency commenting on proposals regulation of materials and articles in contact with food (Wales)
Over 50 different organisations attended the 2018 Government Chemist Conference at BMA House in June 2018
The presentations from the 2018 Government Chemist Conference are now available
The Government Chemist team contributed to MoniQA, an international conference on food fraud and allergen management, in Vienna on 7 and 8 June 2018
Standards published by the CEN from April to May 2018, some of which are relevant to chemical measurement in support of food and animal feed regulation
We still have some room at the Conference. Professor John Loughhead, CSA, BEIS, will be the keynote speaker. Come and meet Dr Julian Braybrook, our new Government Chemist
The government announced today that Dr Julian Braybrook has been appointed as the new Government Chemist.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
Standards published by the CEN from February to March 2018, some of which are relevant to chemical measurement in support of food and animal feed regulation.
First of a new series of government-funded events, this workshop focused on practical aspects of the application of multiple analytical techniques to detect allergens
Standards published by CEN, during the period December 2017 to January 2018, some of which are relevant to chemical measurement in support of regulation
The Government Chemist biennial conference will take place on 13-14 June at BMA House in Central London
The GC Programme organises an annual, fully residential week-long postgraduate course on the analysis and examination of food and feed.
The UK Government Chemist team contributed to discussions at technical round table on honey authentication at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
The GC team, with collaborators at FSA and FSS, will be delivering a workshop on detection of allergen in spices by complementary analytical techniques on 28 February 2018
The Government Chemist has been invited to contribute to a special edition on food allergen analysis in the highly respected Journal of the AOAC INTERNATIONAL
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