An e-seminar produced as part of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis
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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.
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from April to September 2024
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, 26 June 2024
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from January to March 2024
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Impact analysis of work completed clearly illustrates that the Joint KT Framework provides an effective mechanism to deliver strategic knowledge transfer
Wednesday, 07 February 2024
A Toolkit to Support Weight of Evidence Approaches for Food Authenticity Investigations published by Defra.
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from October to December 2023
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 food fraud
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
Referee casework, research projects, advice and impact of work carried out by the Government Chemist team during 2022
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
Referee casework, research projects, advice and impact of work carried out by the Government Chemist team during 2022
Thursday, 23 November 2023
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from July to September 2023
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.
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
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Government Chemist leads work on Protocol for the Collection of Honey Reference Samples for the Construction of Honey Authenticity Databases
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Government Chemist leads work on Protocol for the Collection of Honey Reference Samples for the Construction of Honey Authenticity Databases
Friday, 15 September 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, 08 September 2023
E-seminar covering the design, structure, and limitations of databases for non-targeted multianalyte methods
Friday, 08 September 2023
E-seminar covering the application of isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) for use with food authenticity, and quality testing
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from January to March 2023
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from April to June 2023
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
An update on the work of the Government Chemist assessing the conformity of jelly mini-cup confectionary products.
Tuesday, 08 August 2023
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from April to June 2023
Tuesday, 08 August 2023
This is the quarterly report of updates to UK legislation in food and feed and related scientific and regulatory issues from January to March 2023
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
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
Thursday, 06 July 2023
Government Chemist Conference- Safe food for tomorrow's world: food security in challenging global conditions presentations and recordings are available below
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.
Friday, 30 June 2023
A report on the 2023 Government Chemist conference on 20-21 June
Wednesday, 28 June 2023
The 2023 Government Chemist Conference- Safe food for tomorrow's world: food security in challenging global conditions presentations are available below.
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.
Friday, 02 June 2023
Registration is now open for the Government Chemist Conference 2023, Safe food for tomorrow’s world: food security in challenging global conditions.
Thursday, 11 May 2023
Registration is now open for the Government Chemist Conference 2023, Safe food for tomorrow’s world: food security in challenging global conditions.
Friday, 05 May 2023
Strategy document supporting the Government Chemist work for the 2023-2026 programme
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
Thursday, 23 March 2023
Registration is now open for the Government Chemist Conference 2023, Safe food for tomorrow’s world: food security in challenging global conditions.
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Fifth webinar in the Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis on 29 March 2023
Wednesday, 22 March 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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