UK: New food safety centre launched
September 1st, 2009
By Emma Jackson
A groundbreaking food safety centre will open at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, this month, to help local agri-food industries fight for shares of global food markets by underpinning their reputation for high health standards.
The £2 million Centre for Assured, Safe, and Traceable Food (ASSET), funded in part by Northern Ireland's Department for Employment and Learning, will research new technologies to detect contaminants in food, which the province's agri-food industries will implement in their facilities to ensure high ...
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