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New date: Webinar on fish speciation for food authenticity

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 their scope and limitations

Webinar information slide: Webinar on 25 March, 15:00 GMT presented by Timothy Wilkes

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About the webinar

This is the first webinar in the Quarterly Webinar Series of the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis, which is a cross-government project (funded by Defra, FSA, FSS and the Government Chemist) aimed at disseminating knowledge from government funded research to stakeholders to support UK laboratory capability and promote best practice in food safety and standards analysis.

皇冠体育app webinar will take place on 25 March 2021, 15:00 (GMT) and will be presented by Dr Timothy Wilkes. Dr Wilkes has over 20 years鈥� experience in the field of genetic research in academic and industrial sectors. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of microarrays and qPCR technology for applications ranging from cancer diagnostics and functional gene analysis to food authenticity.

皇冠体育app webinar will be introduced by Selvarani Elahi MBE, Deputy Government Chemist.

皇冠体育app webinar will be followed by a Q&A session. 皇冠体育app Q&A panel will include Tim Wilkes, Malcolm Burns, LGC and Ivan Bartolo, . 皇冠体育app event will be chaired by Mark Woolfe, .

Further resources

皇冠体育app training materials developed through this framework are available on:

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Updates to this page

Published 12 January 2021
Last updated 16 March 2021 show all updates
  1. This event will now include a Q&A session with a panel of experts.

  2. Webinar date has been changed

  3. First published.