Open meeting presentation - Glenn Kennedy

Professor Glenn Kennedy, Head of Chemical Surveillance Branch, presented his branch’s work on surveillance of chemical residues in food and feeding stuffs. He outlined how recent analytical advances can detect residues of a chemical compounds with a sensitivity of one in nine parts per billion – the equivalent of finding one person among the entire world population!  He also referred to AFBI’s role as the UK National Reference Laboratory (NRL) for illegal veterinary drugs and marine biotoxins.