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E seminar: POC devices for food safety, authenticity and quality testing

E seminar: POC devices for food safety, authenticity and quality testing

Monday, 10 July 2023

E-seminar providing an overview of Point Of Contact testing, the range of adopted analytical techniques and examples of current and emerging devices...

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2023 Government Chemist Conference presentations and recordings

2023 Government Chemist Conference presentations and recordings

Thursday, 06 July 2023

Government Chemist Conference- Safe food for tomorrow's world: food security in challenging global conditions presentations and recordings are availab...

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CEN Update: Information affecting chemical measurements June 2023

CEN Update: Information affecting chemical measurements June 2023

Friday, 30 June 2023

Updates by the European standardisation organisation, CEN, some of which are relevant to chemical and bio measurements in support of regulation. ...

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Government Chemist Conference 2023   Report

Government Chemist Conference 2023 Report

Friday, 30 June 2023

A report on the 2023 Government Chemist conference on 20-21 June...

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Government Chemist Conference: 20 21 June 2023

Government Chemist Conference: 20 21 June 2023

Monday, 12 June 2023

Registration is now open for the Government Chemist Conference 2023, Safe food for tomorrow’s world: food security in challenging global conditions....

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Webinar: Testing for CBD in novel foods

Webinar: Testing for CBD in novel foods

Thursday, 13 April 2023

Fifth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 29 March 2023...

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Government Chemist contributes to review of the National Food Crime Unit

Government Chemist contributes to review of the National Food Crime Unit

Thursday, 15 December 2022

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...

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Save the date   Government Chemist Conference 2023

Save the date Government Chemist Conference 2023

Friday, 21 October 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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Webinar: Analysis for substances causing food hypersensitivity

Webinar: Analysis for substances causing food hypersensitivity

Friday, 21 October 2022

Fourth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 28 September 2022...

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Government Chemist programme survey

Government Chemist programme survey

Friday, 29 July 2022

The Government Chemist is running a survey to evaluate the economical, industrial and social benefits of the Government Chemist Programme...

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E seminar: Screening for GMOs in consignments of rice and rice products

E seminar: Screening for GMOs in consignments of rice and rice products

Friday, 29 July 2022

This e-seminar describes best practice in screening for GMOs in consignments of rice and rice products originating from China...

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Impact of war on Ukraine on food chain supply: information resource

Impact of war on Ukraine on food chain supply: information resource

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

The Food Authenticity Network has created a new information resource base for stakeholders ...

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New Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity launched

New Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity launched

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

The Centre for Excellence in Agriculture and Food Integrity is a strategic partnership between Queen’s University Belfast and the NML at LGC...

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E seminar: CBD in food supplements   Part 1

E seminar: CBD in food supplements Part 1

Tuesday, 21 June 2022

E-seminar covering issues surrounding the use of CBD in food supplements and difficulties likely to be encountered in their analytical testing...

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Webinar: The Global Honey Supply Chain

Webinar: The Global Honey Supply Chain

Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Third webinar in the Quarterly Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 19 January 2022...

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The Global Honey Supply Chain

The Global Honey Supply Chain

Monday, 04 April 2022

This e-seminar, by Cathal Henigan, Purchasing Director at Valeo Foods UK, will provide an introduction to the subject of the global honey supply chai...

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Government Chemist contributes to food allergen guidance

Government Chemist contributes to food allergen guidance

Monday, 21 March 2022

The GC team collaborated with experts to develop quantitative risk assessment guidance for food allergens...

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GC team publishes scientific papers on honey authentication

GC team publishes scientific papers on honey authentication

Friday, 18 February 2022

The UK Government Chemist team has recently had two significant scientific papers published in Nature Portfolio Journal, npj-Science of Food, highligh...

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E seminar: NGS (part 2), Instruments, Methods and Implementation

E seminar: NGS (part 2), Instruments, Methods and Implementation

Thursday, 17 February 2022

This e-seminar provides an introduction to NGS instrumentation and applications employed with food safety, authenticity, and quality analysis....

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GC team contributes to UK POSTnote on genome edited food crops

GC team contributes to UK POSTnote on genome edited food crops

Tuesday, 08 February 2022

The Government Chemist and his team contributed to a POSTnote on genome edited food crops...

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Government Chemist contribution recognised as ACMD publishes advice on CBD products

Government Chemist contribution recognised as ACMD publishes advice on CBD products

Friday, 21 January 2022

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has now published its advice on consumer cannabidiol (CBD) to which the GC team has contributed with a ser...

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Food Allergens Risk Assessment Part 2

Food Allergens Risk Assessment Part 2

Thursday, 09 December 2021

This e-seminar was compiled by Benjamin C Remington, PhD, and follows on from the e-seminar, “An Introduction to Food Allergen Risk Assessment"...

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Latest notices for traders from Defra, December 2021

Latest notices for traders from Defra, December 2021

Friday, 03 December 2021

Defra has issued notices for traders on importing requirements coming into place during 2022...

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Government Chemist webinar: Covid and agricultural sustainability

Government Chemist webinar: Covid and agricultural sustainability

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Darshna Vyas will talk about the impact of COVID-19 on agricultural sustainability and explore how genomics can play its part in building resilience f...

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FSA launches allergy and intolerance reporting tool

FSA launches allergy and intolerance reporting tool

Thursday, 04 November 2021

A new reporting tool is available for reporting cases of food allergy, intolerance or coeliac disease...

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Government Chemist contributes to IFST food allergens resource

Government Chemist contributes to IFST food allergens resource

Friday, 01 October 2021

The Institute of Food Science Technology has launched a new Food Allergens Knowledge Hub to help consumers, food businesses and educators source best ...

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Guidance note on NGS applications for food authenticity testing

Guidance note on NGS applications for food authenticity testing

Friday, 27 August 2021

Government Chemist's foreword to Defra’s Authenticity Methodology Working Group’s view on the use of Next Generation Sequencing for food authenticity ...

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GC contributes to research prioritisation in food hypersensitivity

GC contributes to research prioritisation in food hypersensitivity

Thursday, 26 August 2021

Government Chemist contributes to Food Standards Agency food hypersensitivity research horizon scanning exercise...

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Latest notices for traders from Defra

Latest notices for traders from Defra

Friday, 23 July 2021

Defra has issued notices for traders on importing Goods from the EU, an updated Border Operating Model and the Northern Ireland Protocol...

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Allergen Risk Assessment webinar with expert Q&A panel

Allergen Risk Assessment webinar with expert Q&A panel

Friday, 23 July 2021

Second webinar in the Quarterly Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 16 June...

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