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The Government Chemist provides independent scientific expertise and advice on chemical and related analytical matters to UK government departments and agencies, ensuring compliance with legislation and supporting public health and safety.
Based on publicly published press releases (last 12 months)
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Friday, 28 November 2025
An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis...
Friday, 28 November 2025
A project, commissioned under Defra’s Food Authenticity Programme, to develop a practical framework for the interrogation of honey authenticity databa...
Monday, 06 October 2025
Seminar describing the principles of and best practice guidelines for the design of qPCR assays....
Monday, 06 October 2025
This e-seminar describes the principles behind the digital PCR technique, and gives some good practice guidelines for its use...
Monday, 06 October 2025
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 thei...
Monday, 06 October 2025
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...
Monday, 06 October 2025
This e-seminar describes the principles and best practice guidelines for the application of the post-PCR analytical method of DNA melting curve analys...
Thursday, 18 September 2025
A guide for testing laboratories on the application of Laser Direct Infrared (LD-IR) for the microplastics characterisation...
Tuesday, 05 August 2025
An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis...
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
The Government Chemist Conference will take place on 23-24 June 2026 at Nexus, University of Leeds with remote attendance options...
Thursday, 26 June 2025
An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis...
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published the UK Food Security Report 2024...
Saturday, 14 December 2024
An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis...
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis...
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
The Deputy Government Chemist presents at the Association of Port Health Authorities AGM and Port Health Training Day....
Monday, 16 September 2024
Protocol for the Collection of Honey Reference Samples for the Construction of Authenticity Databases has been updated to include online forms. ...
Monday, 22 July 2024
An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis...
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Impact analysis of work completed clearly illustrates that the Joint KT Framework provides an effective mechanism to deliver strategic knowledge trans...
Wednesday, 07 February 2024
A Toolkit to Support Weight of Evidence Approaches for Food Authenticity Investigations published by Defra....
Wednesday, 20 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 f...
Thursday, 23 November 2023
The UK Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) requests user feedback to support the production of the 2024 UK Food Security Report....
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Sixth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 26 September 2023...
Friday, 03 November 2023
UK Government responds to expert committee recommendations on consumer CBD products....
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Government Chemist leads work on Protocol for the Collection of Honey Reference Samples for the Construction of Honey Authenticity Databases...
Friday, 08 September 2023
E-seminar covering the application of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) for use with food authenticity, and quality testing...
Thursday, 07 September 2023
E-seminar covering the design, structure, and limitations of databases for non-targeted multianalyte methods...
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
An update on the work of the Government Chemist assessing the conformity of jelly mini-cup confectionary products....
Monday, 07 August 2023
Selvarani Elahi talked at the STFC Food Network+ (SFN+) 5th Annual Conference on 3-4 July 2023 in York...
Monday, 10 July 2023
Introduction to food hypersensitivity, food allergens (touching on allergens outside of the UK/EU) and gluten and food intolerance compounds...
Monday, 10 July 2023
Overview of the analysis of novel foods for the presence of cannabidiol...
Civil Nuclear Constabulary Scottish teams' dedication praised during severe winter weather
Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street Appointment: 9 January 2026
Open Innovation Team Open Innovation Team PhD Placement Scheme 2026-27
Ministry of Justice NHS and probation join forces to break cycle of reoffending
The Charity Commission Regulator investigates charity over concerns about asset sale
UK Health Security Agency Flu levels ‘stubbornly stable’ in older age groups despite overall decline
Intellectual Property Office Vote for your most iconic UK trade mark