We have launched a new section to our website - Analytical Technique Explainers. You can find it under the Research & Methods section.
The aim is to explain some of the more common methods used for food authenticity testing in language that a typical food industry Technical Manager can understand. To give them context by which they can both choose appropriate test methods and interpret results certificates. We would value your feedback on whether we have achieved this, and whether the explainers could be improved in either pitch or content. We do not expect them to hit the mark first time, and expect an iterative process of improvement.
We will be adding more methods over the next few weeks. The first to go live are Mass Spectrometry and Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis. Content was written by Mark Woolfe, for whom this turned into a Labour of Love, and reviewed by scientists from our Centres of Expertise laboratories and we are extremely grateful for their in-kind time contributions.
These explainers were one of the priorities identified by our Funding Partners and we are grateful to them for funding their development. If you would like to join our funding partners then please get in touch.
A video guide on how to navigate to the new page is here. (on my website, as exceeds file size for FAN site)
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Thanks very much for getting this published. Our heart-felt thanks to FAN's inagural Secretary, Dr Mark Woolfe, to producing this Compendium, to our Centres of Expertise reviewers, and to our government Partners for funding the work.