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EFRA committee publishes SfAM response to the plastic food packaging inquiry
The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has published SfAM's written evidence submitted to the inquiry into plastic food packaging.
The student experience – would it be complete without microbes?
What infections can students encounter and where will these microbes be hiding?
Yeast: deliciously ancient
Allison Cartwight, SfAM ECS Communications Officer, goes on a journey with yeast.
Science policy report: Food safety and food manufacturing and processing
This briefing focuses on recent and upcoming developments in food processing, food manufacture and the wider food supply chain, which will have an impact on risks related to harmful microorganisms (such as bacteria and viruses) and their toxins in foods.
Big Shoes to Fill
Meet our next ECS committee chair, Jennie French.
EMI Lecture 2019: Professor Juan Luis Ramos
The double life of Pseudomonas putida: ubiquitous soil bacteria and useful microbial chassis.
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