Safety

From primary production, through processing, packaging and distribution, there are many points at which contamination could occur. By helping you to maintain and manage your product safety throughout its entire journey, we can help assure the safety of your product when it reaches the consumer.

Member funded research projects: safety

• Food safety and traceability using protein profiling
• Hygienic design: retrospective modification of existing plant
• Control of viruses in food production
• Next generation techniques for microbiological and chemical food safety
• Intelligent process and product design using new predictive tools
• Food allergens – providing guidance for compliance and resolving analytical challenges
• Risk reduction strategies for chemical contaminants in primary production
• Ensuring the chemical safety of food and drink using non–targeted screening methods

Related items

• Video: Challenge testing
  A challenge test is the deliberate addition of specific microorganisms to monitor their growth in a product.
• High Pressure Processing of Innocent vegetable juices
  Investigating how HPP could improve safety.
• Quality and safety management courses
  Explore our full range of courses and seminars in quality and safety management.
• Bubbles improve washing and cleaning
  Incorporating air bubbles into water can significantly increase the removal of biofilm in washing, according to member funded research.
• Podcast: knowledge and skills for safety assurance
  HACCP is important for all involved in food and drink production.
• MIG: Quality and food safety management
  The effective management of quality is of vital concern to the food retailing and manufacturing industries.
• Blog: meat testing – quality and safety
  Testing of meat and meat products can be used to assess safety, performance and compliance.