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New date: Webinar on fish speciation for food authenticity

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

Webinar information slide: Webinar on 25 March, 15:00 GMT presented by Timothy Wilkes

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Fish Speciation for Food Authenticity Webinar

About the webinar

This is the first webinar in the Quarterly Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis, which is a cross-government project (funded by Defra, FSA, FSS and the Government Chemist) aimed at disseminating knowledge from government funded research to stakeholders to support UK laboratory capability and promote best practice in food safety and standards analysis.

The webinar will take place on 25 March 2021, 15:00 (GMT) and will be presented by Dr Timothy Wilkes. Dr Wilkes has over 20 years’ experience in the field of genetic research in academic and industrial sectors. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of microarrays and qPCR technology for applications ranging from cancer diagnostics and functional gene analysis to food authenticity.

The webinar will be introduced by Selvarani Elahi MBE, Deputy Government Chemist.

The webinar will be followed by a Q&A session. The Q&A panel will include Tim Wilkes, Malcolm Burns, LGC and Ivan Bartolo, Sea Fish Industry Authority. The event will be chaired by Mark Woolfe, Food Authenticity Network.

Further resources

The training materials developed through this framework are available on:

For more information about the work of the Government Chemist please contact:

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Published 12 January 2021
Last updated 16 March 2021 + show all updates
  1. This event will now include a Q&A session with a panel of experts.

  2. Webinar date has been changed

  3. First published.