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A Toolkit to Support Weight of Evidence Approaches for Food Authenticity Investigations published by Defra.
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
Government Chemist scientists publish research work on the analysis of isotopic composition of coffee beans as a marker of regional origin to combat food fraud
Referee casework, research projects, advice and impact of work carried out by the Government Chemist team during 2022
The Government Chemist Programme Expert Group (GCPEG) plays a key role in the governance of the GC programme by providing the necessary independent scrutiny.
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from July to September 2023
The UK Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) requests user feedback to support the production of the 2024 UK Food Security Report.
Sixth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 26 September 2023
UK Government responds to expert committee recommendations on consumer CBD products.
Government Chemist leads work on Protocol for the Collection of Honey Reference Samples for the Construction of Honey Authenticity Databases
Collection of training e-seminars and knowledge resources produced by the Government Chemist team
E-seminar covering the application of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) for use with food authenticity, and quality testing
E-seminar covering the design, structure, and limitations of databases for non-targeted multianalyte methods
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from January to March 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 2023
An update on the work of the Government Chemist assessing the conformity of jelly mini-cup confectionary products.
This series brings together all documents relating to Government Chemist reviews of changes in food and feed legislation affecting the UK.
Selvarani Elahi talked at the STFC Food Network+ (SFN+) 5th Annual Conference on 3-4 July 2023 in York
Introduction to food hypersensitivity, food allergens (touching on allergens outside of the UK/EU) and gluten and food intolerance compounds
Overview of the analysis of novel foods for the presence of cannabidiol
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