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A Toolkit to Support Weight of Evidence Approaches for Food Authenticity Investigations published by Defra.
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
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
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
An update on the work of the Government Chemist assessing the conformity of jelly mini-cup confectionary products.
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
E-seminar providing an overview of Point Of Contact testing, the range of adopted analytical techniques and examples of current and emerging devices
Government Chemist Conference- Safe food for tomorrow's world: food security in challenging global conditions presentations and recordings are available below
Updates by the European standardisation organisation, CEN, some of which are relevant to chemical and bio measurements in support of regulation.
A report on the 2023 Government Chemist conference on 20-21 June
Registration is now open for the Government Chemist Conference 2023, Safe food for tomorrow’s world: food security in challenging global conditions.
Fifth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 29 March 2023
Selvarani Elahi MBE, deputy Government Chemist, formed part of the team tasked with the review of the activity of the National Food Crime Unit in 2022
The Government Chemist Conference will take place on 20-21 June 2023 at the Royal Society of Chemistry, London with remote attendance options
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