CEd continues to take advantage of the many opportunities to connect in the virtual world with recent sessions organised in partnership with STEM Learning. British Science Week – Making time for science British Science Week in March gave CEd the opportunity to share its many popular resources. This included an online event for teachers in the East Midlands which was hosted by CEd at the invitation of the STEM Network. The session was designed to support teachers with STEM activities, experiments and resources to help with science in the classroom. CEd’s Charlotte said: “We focussed on ideas that work well […]

For a certain generation 1989 is simply the title of a Taylor Swift album. While for others it’s a year of milestones: the fall of the Berlin Wall being most notable. It also marked the beginning of another era with the beginning of CFA: “A New Association for a New Generation of Food”.   Click here to explore CFA through the years. And take a look at CFA News 41 which celebrated 25 years.  

A paper has recently been published in the peer-reviewed journal Food Control by Dr Nicola Wilson, Karin Goodburn and Dr Ken Johnston describing a method of membrane filtration to enumerate low levels of Listeria spp including Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) on salad leaf. The paper is described in the abstract and is an enhancement of the legally recognised reference method (BS EN ISO 11290-2:2017), which is insufficiently sensitive to enumerate the low numbers of Lm in most commercially prepared leaf salads. more sensitive method is required to evaluate the impact of process changes and the effect of Listeria control mechanisms in […]