Opportunities to strengthen scientific support for the seafood industry are being explored by a leading sector-serving laboratory.
Core challenges facing the industry as a whole, specifically around food safety, authenticity, and skills training, have been highlighted.
Eurofins Food and Water Testing 海角视频 & Ireland held talks with five leading businesses and the University of Lincoln to look at emerging requirements.
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It sought to understand commercial needs and constraints as it aims to enhance collaborative support.
Mark Carnaghan, managing director, was joined by his group technical and quality director, senior group microbiologist and chemist in discussions at Grimsby Enterprise Village.
He said: 鈥淲ith a well-established presence in Grimsby, we鈥檙e hugely committed to the region鈥檚 fishing industry and in supporting businesses to create even safer working environments.
鈥淥ur discussions with the University of Lincoln could lead to an exciting collaboration with our local communities to launch a series of new initiatives, identify opportunities to enhance food safety, authenticity and training, and to ultimately help safeguard the future of the fishing industry.鈥
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As reported, the university is spearheading a 海角视频 Food Valley Pilot, with more than 拢400,000 of funding secured for the sector.
It will be used to test an innovative support programme to develop the industry鈥檚 skills, innovation capacity and ability to attract new talent, 鈥渉elping to ensure the position of Grimsby鈥檚 seafood cluster as a global hub鈥.
Testing capacity was enhanced in Grimsby significantly after the business that has served the industry for more than a quarter of a century was acquired from Exova in 2016 by the market leader. For a long time it was known as Allied Labs, prior to the original buy-out in 2008.
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