Project 24337 - Guidance for Organisation of Informal Food Authenticity Surveillance Programmes
What the buyer wrote
After the horsemeat incident, Prof Chris Elliott's Review recommended (No 4) "a resilient network of food analytical laboratories capable of testing consistently for food authenticity in the future". Defra's response was to seek a view from the Authenticity Methods Working Group (AMWG), which recommended that Defra "facilitate the development of guidance on surveillance programmes to inform national sampling programmes." This project aims to produce this guidance. Formal sampling for local authority prosecutions is subject to certain conditions laid down in the Food Safety Act in term of the number of samples taken. This guidance will focus on the considerations needed when deciding what a…
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- What the buyer calls it
- Project 24337 - Guidance for Organisation of Informal Food Authenticity Surveillance Programmes
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Type
- services
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 15 Nov 2018
- Work ends
- 15 May 2019
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
Who the buyer named
Clive Forman was the named contact on this notice.