York Apprenticeship Graduation and Awards Ceremony 2017: A celebration of business talent in the city. Over 100 apprentices will be graduating at the 7th York Apprenticeship Graduation and Awards Ceremony, York Grand Opera House on the 8 November 2017. Read more
Members of the European Parliament have backed a proposal to phase out glyphosate in the EU within the next 5 years. They voted 355 in favour of the ban, 204 against and 111 abstentions. Read more
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) have announced an ambitious new research partnership to develop practical soil biology management guidance.
The five-year partnership looks to improve on-farm understanding of soil health by benchmarking current academic and industry knowledge, developing and validating indicators of soil biology and soil health in research trials and integrating a far-reaching knowledge exchange programme throughout the five-year programme.
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Sharmini Thomas, York’s Indian Cookery Guru, will launch her new spice range at York Food Festival on Friday 29th September. Read more
The Future of Food and Drink: Opportunities and Challenges in a post Brexit Britain. Hear from industry experts and insiders including the innovators, the start-up entrepreneurs, the PR guru, the exporters, the buyers and more on the future of food and drink. A hugely successful inaugural event in 2016. This year's event is set to be bigger and better than ever, bringing together business leaders from right across the sector in York and beyond.
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Don't be the next headline as yet another high profile foodborne outbreak of E. coli could be linked to a food manufacturer.
With investigations underway, public bodies are not ruling out a link between recent E.coli cases and potential contamination of imported salad leaves . This comes directly on the back of the high profile product recalls of General Mills flour.
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Come and join us for the 8th International Symposium on Flame Retardants: BFR 2017, Hosted by Fera Science Ltd, taking place from Sunday 7th to Wednesday 10th May 2017 in York, UK. Read more
The scientific programme will focus on the latest research into the environmental behaviour of pesticides. The programme is looking to take a holistic view of investigations at various scales, blending research into basic processes with study of routes of environmental exposure and the development of practical management strategies to reduce contamination.
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Fera is delighted to announce that we will be speaking and exhibiting at Chemical Industry Regulations (CIR), between 5-7th September 2017 at Nice Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice, France. Come and listen to our key speaker Dr Rachel Benstead, Senior Aquatic Ecotoxicologist here at Fera Science and visit us at Stand 12 to find out more about the state of the art E-Flows mesocosm. Read more
Returning for a second year, the York Food and Drink Conference is to be held at the Principle Hotel in York on Thursday September the 14th. Fera's Paul Brereton will be speaking on identifying emerging risks in food and drink. Read more