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An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis
A project, commissioned under Defra’s Food Authenticity Programme, to develop a practical framework for the interrogation of honey authenticity databases.
This series brings together all documents relating to Government Chemist reviews of changes in food and feed legislation affecting the UK.
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from June to September 2025.
Referee casework, research projects, advice and impact of work carried out by the Government Chemist team during 2024.
Seminar describing the principles of and best practice guidelines for the design of qPCR assays.
This e-seminar describes the principles behind the digital PCR technique, and gives some good practice guidelines for its use
This webinar on fish speciation will introduce the prevalent methods used in testing laboratories in the UK and EU, and will provide a summary of their scope and limitations
This e-seminar will introduce the viewer to the topic of qPCR assay validation and provide best practice guidance on how to undertake the process
This e-seminar describes the principles and best practice guidelines for the application of the post-PCR analytical method of DNA melting curve analysis
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