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A study investigating awareness of coeliac disease and the gluten status of ‘gluten-free’ food from catering outlets in Ireland.
Fifth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 29 March 2023
Workshop aimed at providing advice and practical knowledge for assessing the conformity of confectionery items to the Regulation definition of jelly mini-cups.
The Government Chemist team run a very well received workshop providing practical knowledge for assessing the conformity of confectionery items known as jelly mini-cups
The European Commission has published an amendment to Annex IV of EU Directive 2011/65/EU
A Toolkit to Support Weight of Evidence Approaches for Food Authenticity Investigations published by Defra.
Sixth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 26 September 2023
The GC team has collaborated in the review of analytical methods to detect adulteration in coffee
Nonylphenol ethoxylates to be banned in imported clothing and textiles
A review of the latest allergen measurement techniques and an outline of how allergen cases are being dealt with in UK courts.
Guidance for food traders on how to submit a sample to the Government Chemist for second expert opinion.
Letter from the Government Chemist to the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers providing expert opinion on food allergen guidelines.
This series brings together all documents relating to Government Chemist reviews of changes in food and feed legislation affecting the UK.
The UK Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) requests user feedback to support the production of the 2024 UK Food Security Report.
An overview of the process of animal cloning and a review of current scientific knowledge for detecting food from cloned animals.
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from October to December 2023
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from April to June 2022
This e-seminar will familiarise the viewer with the concepts of food allergen risk assessment and specifically with the risks from unintended allergen presence
Correspondence between the Government Chemist, the Chair of the ACMD and the Minister of State for Crime and Policing
This tutorial paper offers a review of the common names, abbreviations, regulation, psychoactivity and analytical methodology for the principle cannabinoids
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