The National Food Crime Unit visits LGC
Selvarani Elahi and Michael Walker, from the 바카라 사이트 Chemist team, hosted a visit by Sean Daly and Rachel Gullaksen of the NFCU on 14 August
Rachel Gullaksen, Sean Daly and Malcolm Burns (from left to right) looking at multispectral imaging applications for food authenticity
The Food Standards Agency바카라 사이트檚 National Food Crime Unit (NFCU) aims to help protect businesses and consumers from fraudulent supply chains through building relationships with industry, delivering crime prevention initiatives and conducting thorough, proportionate investigations where necessary. This is to support the Food Standard Agency to deliver its overarching strategy that 바카라 사이트渇ood is safe and is what it says it is바카라 사이트�.
Following an increase to its budget, the NFCU has seen significant extension of the unit바카라 사이트檚 capabilities and remit in terms of its investigation and crime disruption capabilities and the prevention of food crime. As part of its outreach programme and as a follow-up to a meeting between Darren Davies, Head of the NFCU and the 바카라 사이트 Chemist, Julian Braybrook and Selvarani Elahi in May 2019, colleagues from the NFCU visited LGC.
Selvarani Elahi gave a presentation on the , highlighting the benefits of closer collaboration between this growing global network and the NFCU, both of which were created by the UK government to address the recommendations of the Elliott Review.
NFCU colleagues were taken on a tour of LGC바카라 사이트檚 where LGC staff demonstrated research on a range of technologies from point-of-use screening to confirmatory methods capable of combating food crime or food fraud .