Your vote counts again!

With around £2M funds available, members recently voted for the research projects they want us to carry out through 2014 and beyond. The following projects, which start in January 2014, complement about 50 other projects in our ongoing research programme:

• Food authenticity – development of 'next generation' analytical technologies to protect the food industry from fraud.
• Assuring the quality and safety of cereal-based food products and ingredients for the food industry.
• On–line technologies for food process control.
• Improving the effectiveness of washing and cleaning using small, micro– or nano–scale air bubbles.
• Determination of the shelf life of food and drink products – 'forcing' as an approach to accelerated shelf life testing.
• Intelligent process and product design using new predictive tools.
• Food allergens – providing guidance for compliance and resolving analytical challenges.
• Food safety plans: a holistic approach to risk management.

More details on these and on–going projects will be available in our Research Programme 2014 document in January. Members can also access summaries of existing projects here.