A new Yorkshire-based initiative, the Food Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration (CIC), has been launched this week in Leeds with the aim of providing a link between food producers and research institutions.

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The Food Chain CIC aims to provide high-level scientific support for food chain companies to help them keep customers and win new ones by improving their quality assurance and added value.


Two early successes for the Food Chain CIC are an automatic auto-fluorescent system to reject fruit with stone remnants, and a technique to ensure consistency of aromas and flavours of identically branded products that are produced at different manufacturing plants.

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