Jan 23rd, 2025
2 mins
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) have shared an on-demand webinar covering the subject of sampling approaches for food analysis.
The webinar focuses on those approaches employed by the FSA but was produced by the Joint Knowledge Transfer Framework for Food Standards and Food Safety Analysis, funded by the Food Standards Agency, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Food Standards Scotland and the Department for Science Innovation and Technology via the Government Chemist.
Food sampling involves taking a sub-sample from a larger consignment to gain insight as to its composition. It performs an essential function in providing intelligence and evidence on the safety and authenticity of food and feed on the market, supporting enforcement action, where needed, to protect consumers. The process for undertaking sampling can be expensive and resource intensive and therefore needs to be delivered in a coordinated and targeted manner to be effective in addressing identified gaps.
The seminar provides information to promote a better understanding of different sampling approaches that can be used in different situations and can be viewed here
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