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Centre of Vocational Excellence in Food Chain Technology
Opened on the 12th of October 2005, the £1.5m centre provides a focal point for the provision of practical courses for the industry across a range of subjects - from butchery and dairy production to food hygiene. Learners gain a working knowledge of the food industry, with a general introduction to food manufacture, backed up with a range of specialist options. The centre combined with the Dairy Unit and National Beef Training Centre, make Askham Bryan College unique to the region.
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Back to topFERA - The Food and Environment Research Agency
FERA is an Executive Agency of the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It is the UK's foremost public sector laboratory working to protect environmental quality, support sustainable land use, and safeguard food safety. Its main role is to provide research, technical services and risk assessments in support of government objectives. FERA also works with the international food, speciality chemicals and land-based industries. Arising from the research programmes is a wide range of analytical, diagnostic and consultancy services.
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Food Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration
The Food Chain CIC is a combination of world class expertise at the Universities of Leeds and York and the Central Science Laboratory. It provides an unique facility for food research, to enable the food industry to meet new technical challenges and seize new commercial possibilities in food production. The CIC will allow businesses to maximise food quality, find lasting technical solutions, help the food industry add value to its products and provide safer and more nutritious food.
Back to topThe BA Festival of Science
The British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA) is a charity that exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. The BA Festival of Science is one of the UK's biggest science festivals. Annually it attracts around 400 of the best scientists and science communicators from home and abroad who reveal the latest developments in research to a general audience, at a week long event held at a different location each September.
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