If you're at the Balmoral Show this Thursday, come to the IGFS stall and take part in Rufie's game on food safety.

I wonder if this was part of Keir Starmer's plan - accept Natalie Elphicke and watch the Tories continually shoot themselves in both feet as they hurridly dig out every one of her skeletons they've hidden at the back of closet...

Clarkson's Farm - four years in and the state of British farming and thus our food security, remains as perilous as ever - with climate change, miniscule profits and little free cash for investment conspiring to destroy the sector. #ClarksonsFarm

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I see from Mike Galsworthy that it's the 200th anniversary of 'Ode to Joy' first being performed in Vienna. So here's the Banco Sabadell flashmob performance of it, which remains one of my favourite YouTube videos. #RejoinEU

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The greatest humiliation from the London Mayoral election and it somehow doesn't involve any of the candidates, but Laura Kuenssberg uncritically sharing what some sections of the community might well call fake news.

🚨 Just published! Our research on Italian consumers' cancer risk & burden of disease due to dietary exposure to acrylamide is out now. Check the details of gender and age-specific risks considering 31 different food items.
Chiara Dall'Asta School of Advanced Studies on Food and Nutrition
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The signature work of Gonçalo Rosas da Silva.

Nooooooooooo. #concept2

The inclusion of known allergens like green pea is insanity. There has to be a better option than filling bread with green pea, chickpeas, quinoa, teff, millet and sorghum. Food security not good either, very little UK production for most of those grains.

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Just had the first planning meeting about our grant this morning.

I'm sure someone at Waitrose & Partners advertising agency is going to be the hero of the office on Monday morning - going viral like this is advertising money can't buy.

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also - yes, I've ditched the beard for the first time in 20 years, so the person in the middle is actually me (the grey hair does rather give it away, beard or no beard).

📣 Healthy Ageing Diet Study📣

Volunteers aged 65+ and living in NI or Reading required for 60-90 minute interview to help better understand how ageing affects food habits.

For info or to register interest please contact Barbara Bray MBE ([email protected])

This is why I love doing science - being involved in some of this work, knowing it's protecting animal and then human health is a really great feeling.

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Dodgy grain does not land in Northern Ireland . The Food Fortress makes sure this is the case. Protecting businesses and consumers. farmersjournal.ie/more/northern-…

I'm delighted to report that one of the 33 projects is based at IGFS and led by Tobi Kolawole and myself, with a project on the Development and Application of Novel Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents in the Extraction of Mycotoxins and Antibiotics in Foods. #SustainableLabs