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The last decade has witnessed significant advances in analytical technologies with the capabilities to support food integrity and authenticity testing within the rapidly evolving food industry. Devices that allow diagnostic tests to be performed at or near the point of need, often termed Point-of-contact (POC), represent a growing area within the food sector with the potential to provide real-time monitoring of input materials and production process. POC devices can range from handheld spectroscopic devices such as Raman and FT-IR instruments to desktop portable systems inclusive of compact mass spectrometry, NMR and next generation sequencing (NGS) systems.

The National Measurement Laboratory at LGC are leading on an UK Food Standards Agency funded project investigating the utility and potential of POC technologies in the food sector and have devised this questionnaire to support the evidence building phase of the project. The questionnaire is targeted at individuals involved in the food supply and allied sectors, including primary production, supply, manufacturing and enforcement/regulations.

 

Your participation in this questionnaire will directly help inform the direction of the project and contribute to guidance within the sector:

 

Questionnaire: Point of Contact Testing within the Foods Sector.

The questionnaire should only take around 15 minutes to complete - please do not provide any information that could be used to identify you.

 

We would be very grateful if you could complete the questionnaire by 4 December 2023.

 

Thank you for participating in this questionnaire.