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Government Chemist responds to FSA consultation
The Government Chemist responded to FSA’s consultation seeking stakeholders’ views on the implementation of the Official Controls Regulation
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Government Chemist at food allergy event in Northern Ireland
The Government Chemist contributed to a conference organised by the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast
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Government Chemist Stakeholder Workshop Report 2019
Report summarising the process and conclusions of a priority finding exercise which will inform the work of the Government Chemist in the next programme
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Food and feed law: legislation review (April - June 2019)
Quarterly report providing information and updates on UK food and feed law and related scientific and regulatory issues
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The National Food Crime Unit visits LGC
Selvarani Elahi and Michael Walker, from the Government Chemist team, hosted a visit by Sean Daly and Rachel Gullaksen of the NFCU on 14 August
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GC publishes a technical report on mycotoxin screening using QuEChERS
Report describing research works carried out by the Government Chemist to explore the possibilities of applying QuEChERS to the analysis of mycotoxins in various food matrices
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