Our Services 

We are happy to talk to you about any problem but we specialise in very short-term research and/or development projects and trouble shooting. We have skilled staff in the following areas:

(click on underlined for further information)

·         Food safety, shelf life and spoilage including Microbiology

·         Authentication and traceability (particularly geographic origin using mass spectroscopy)

·         Food Quality (texture, storage)  

·         Materials science and processing

·         Consumer Science

·         Sensory analysis

·         Electromyography

·         Nutritional advice

·         Fresh Produce and Plant Extracts 

·         Human Nutrition Unit (please see news section)

·         Product marketing

·         Polymers and packaging

·         Specialist analysis, particularly NMR, mass spectrometry and microscopy for e.g.

o    Protein in oil

o    A range of phytochemicals

o    Metabolomics  and metabolite profiling

·         Statistics and chemometrics and data analysis