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CCFRA
Services
A world class resource
for the food supply chain
Campden & Chorleywood Food
Research Association Group
Campden & Chorleywood
Food Research Association
CCFRA is the largest membership based
independent food and drink research
association in the world. Our vision is to be
the leading independent research and
technology organisation servicing the agrifood chain internationally.
Our mission is to lead, advise, train and
serve the agri-food chain through the
provision of independent scientific and
technical expertise, training and advisory
services.
Our key role is to help industry improve
and attain:
• Product safety
• Product quality
• Processing efficiency
• Product, package and process innovation
• Industrially relevant knowledge
and so contribute to improving consumer
confidence in the food supply chain.
Key benefits of
CCFRA membership
We offer our services to both members and
non-members, but membership brings a
range of extra benefits:
• Free access to and influence over £2M
per annum worth of industry relevant
research and development
• Privileged access to knowledge and
information including regular updates
• Confidential quality assured support
• Preferential prices
• Emergency assistance contact available 24
hours every day of the year
• Specialist facilities and expertise
• Access to extensive networks of
organisations and individuals
• Access to specific expertise in Central
and Eastern Europe via Campden &
Chorleywood Hungary
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Campden & Chorleywood Food
Research Association Group
About CCFRA
The Research Association was established
on our Chipping Campden site in 1919.
Today the site covers over 6 hectares
(15.3 acres) and comprises 11 buildings
which house 15 separate departments and
includes 2,658m2 of laboratories, 3,047m2
of process halls and 737m2 of training
rooms. The most recent addition was the
construction of a purpose built day nursery.
Over 300 staff are based at Chipping
Campden.
CCFRA’s subsidiary company Campden &
Chorleywood Hungary has its own premises
in Budapest. It provides specialist services in
food safety and quality management systems,
hygiene, consumer and market research,
product development, legislation, and
training.
www.campden.co.uk
www.campden.hu
• Support - we enable industry to
achieve the highest standards of
safety and quality and to promote
innovation for sustained performance
in the marketplace.
• Independent - unbiased support to all
sectors associated with the agri-food
chain, including agriculture,
manufacturing, packaging and
equipment supply, distribution,
retailing and food service, as well as
government agencies and
enforcement authorities.
• Substantial facilities - Over 300 staff
with interdisciplinary skills, and
substantial processing and analytical
facilities.
• Renewable knowledge base - an
extensive R&D programme to maintain
excellent knowledge and skills to
support our unique and comprehensive
range of services.
• Quality assured - we are committed to
good professional practices and to high
quality, cost-effective client services. We
are accredited to undertake specified
tests by the United Kingdom
Accreditation Service and our business
systems satisfy the requirements of
ISO 9001:2000. We have an award
as an Investor in People and are
committed to high standards of training
for all staff, providing industry with a
centre of excellence in skills and
learning.
We provide services to member and non-member organisations. For more
information about becoming a member contact [email protected]
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Raw materials and new
product development
Raw materials
and ingredients
Evaluation of crop husbandry and postharvest practices to ensure that food raw
materials are safe and suitable for the
intended use, including inputs such as crop
varieties.
Field and other trials to determine pesticide
residue levels, taints and efficacy.
Advice on raw material selection for optimal
safety and quality, including crop varieties and
pesticide use (approved products and
maximum residue levels).
Implementation of quality systems in primary
production and raw material procurement,
including HACCP in agriculture.
New product
development
Independent, confidential product
development resource with extensive pilot
plant facilities for most types of food and
drink products.
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary
development service utilising full CCFRA
in-house resource and expertise, from
consumer research through product, process
and packaging development to end product,
with appropriate analytical and legislation
advisory services.
Practical and advisory services for shelf life,
product stability and production problems.
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Food manufacturing
technologies
Assurance of process safety through validation
studies and application of best practice.
Pilot plant facilities for processing fruits and
vegetables, meat products and drinks, and
including, for example, heat processing, aseptics,
modified atmosphere packaging, chilling, freezing,
drying and emerging technologies.
Advice on equipment selection for optimal
process efficiency and control.
Optimisation of food processing operations
using modelling and simulation techniques to
maximise product acceptability.
Food hygiene
Advisory, analytical and design services on
reduction of microbial contamination from food
contact surfaces, non-contact surfaces, water,
people and air.
Planning of factory and laboratory layouts,
including high-risk areas.
Advice on the hygienic suitability and testing of
of production equipment, process area building
materials such as floors, tiles and wall coverings,
and air hygiene systems.
Packaging operations and materials including
process compatability, barrier properties,
integrity testing and environmental aspects.
Evaluation of novel food processing operations.
Hygiene and food
manufacturing
Design, implementation and assessment of
cleaning and disinfection (sanitation)
programmes.
Evaluation of efficacy of detergents and
disinfectants.
Hygiene audits and trouble-shooting.
www.campden.co.uk/services/hygiene.htm
www.campden.co.uk/services/fmt.htm
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Improving quality of raw materials.
Provision of standards for method
performance checks.
Verification of authenticity in rice and other
commodities.
Evaluation and development of
instrumentation for quality prediction and
control in milling and baking processes.
Troubleshooting and consultancy in cereal
testing and milling.
Baking and cereals
processing
Cereals and milling
Monitoring of agrochemical treatment
residues during milling, and evaluation of their
effects on quality characteristics.
Analysis of wheat and flour for compliance
with client specification and suitability for enduse.
Investigation of cereal based complaints.
Cereals, milling
and baking
Application of the science and technology of
baking for product development, costeffective processing, new ingredient evaluation
and quality improvement.
Extensive development and processing
facilities for bread, cake, pastry and biscuit
products, pizzas, pasta, breakfast cereals,
snackfoods, animal feeds and petfoods.
Training courses at introductory and
advanced level for the baking industry.
Facilities for testing ingredients and cerealbased products, including dough rheology and
product texture and factors that affect these,
such as ingredient melting points, and
crystalline structure.
Knowledge based systems for the transfer of
cereal technology and customised training.
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Food chemistry
and biochemistry
Analysis of raw materials and finished products
for compliance with specifications, labelling
claims and authenticity.
Identification of factors affecting quality
parameters including taints and off-flavours,
discoloration and texture degradation.
Compositional analysis and detection of
chemical contaminants including pesticide
residues, allergens and mycotoxins.
Identification of foreign bodies.
Assessment of suitability of packaging materials,
including migration studies.
Cost-effective out-sourcing for quality control
analyses.
Analysis and testing
Food microbiology
Accredited cost-effective microbiological testing
services for safety and quality assurance.
Development and evaluation of new and
advanced microbiological methods suitable for
use by the food and drinks industries.
Evaluation of existing and novel food processes
for microbiological safety and quality.
Determination of product shelf life by
microbiological testing and/or predictive
modelling of microbial growth.
Advisory service for microbiological enquiries:
food pathogens, spoilage issues, safe food
processes, sampling issues, risks and detection
methods.
Information and advice on microbiological risk
assessment.
www.campden.co.uk/services/chem.htm
www.campden.co.uk/services/micro.htm
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Consumer and
sensory science
Market research
and market insights
Identification of new opportunities for
product development through consumer
research and marketplace intelligence.
Consumer panels and test centres.
Combining marketplace intelligence, recipe
development, market research, consumer
research and sensory science to address
product development needs.
Pan-European network for consumer studies.
Sensory science
Effective use of sensory evaluation in product
development, combining knowledge gathered
from consumers using objective sensory
techniques.
Application of established sensory techniques
to specify, monitor and control product
quality, identify taints, and establish
benchmark quality standards.
Using sensory analysis as an integral part of
company quality systems to ensure that
products meet customer specifications.
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Information
Provision of commercially relevant and timely
information services.
Provision of targeted summaries, facts and
figures at a frequency specified by clients
through commissioning of information
specialists.
Supply of best-practice guidelines, technical
reviews, short books, quality specifications and
research reports.
Supply of information in appropriate
multimedia, on-line and web-based formats to
provide single-source access to complex
information.
Legislation
Prompt and accurate answers to enquiries on
the content and interpretation of food and
environment legislation.
Label checks: for compliance with statutory
and voluntary requirements in the UK market.
Alerting and reference publications that
summarise and interpret complex legal
requirements in lay terms.
Information
and legislation
Scheduled and customised training on specific
aspects of food and environment legislation.
www.campden.co.uk/ser vices/iandl.htm
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Training and auditing
Training
Regular training courses and workshops
designed for businesses and organisations
involved in food supply. Many courses
approved by awarding bodies including:
International Register of Certificated Auditors
(IRCA); Royal Institute of Public Health
(RIPH); and Chartered Institute of
Environmental Health (CIEH).
Substantial experience in developing,
customising and delivering training courses to
client specification at locations worldwide
with some contributing to individual Continual
Professional Development and BASIS points.
Auditing, HACCP and
quality management
Cost-effective third party audit, accreditation
and certification to meet your customer
needs and promote your business.
Laboratory accreditation (CLAS).
HACCP advice, auditing and training.
Help and advice on achieving quality
standards required by customers.
Organisation of symposia, seminars and
conferences to address current issues.
www.campden.co.uk/training/training.htm
www.campden.co.uk/services/audit.htm
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CCFRA contacts
Divisional directors
Heads of department
Colin Dennis
Director-General
Agriculture Chris Knight
Tel: +44(0)1386 842001
[email protected]
John Wilkinson
Director of Finance and Company Secretary
Tel: +44(0)1386 842002
[email protected]
Jeremy Davies
Director of Corporate Services
Tel: +44(0)1386 842255
[email protected]
Martin Hall
Director of Food Science
Tel: +44(0)1386 842014
[email protected]
Mike Stringer
Director of Food Technology
Tel: +44(0)1386 842003
[email protected]
Steven Walker
Director of Cereals and Cereal Processing
Tel: +44(0)1386 842012 [email protected]
Cereals and milling Sam Millar
Tel: +44(0)1386 842157 [email protected]
Baking and cereal processing Terry Sharp
Tel: +44(0)1386 842137 [email protected]
Food hygiene John Holah
Tel: +44(0)1386 842041 [email protected]
Food manufacturing technologies Philip Richardson
Tel: +44(0)1386 842036 [email protected]
Chemistry and biochemistry Brian
JulianMcLean
South
Tel: +44(0)1386 842028
[email protected]
[email protected]
Consumer and sensory science Peter Burgess
Tel: +44(0)1386 842122 [email protected]
Corporate communications Leighton Jones
Tel: +44(0)1386 842018 [email protected]
Information and legislation John Hammond
Tel: +44(0)1386 842138 [email protected]
Microbiology Roy Betts
Tel: +44(0)1386 842075 [email protected]
Membership and training Bertrand Emond
Tel: +44(0)1386 842062 [email protected]
Tel: +44(0)1386 842011
[email protected]
Computing services Gordon Kenworthy
András Sebök,
General Manager
Campden & Chorleywood Magyarország Kht,
Tel: +44(0)1386 842029 [email protected]
1107 Budapest, Szállás u. 21, Hungary
Tel: 00 36 1 347 4073
[email protected]
www.campden.hu
Tel: +44(0)1386 842056 [email protected]
Accounts Nicola Hale
Engineering Mike Jeffries
Tel: +44(0)1386 842019 [email protected]
Human resources Gill
TinaPearson
Cook
Tel: +44(0)1386 842286
842189 [email protected]
[email protected]
A world class resource
for the food supply chain
CCFRA is the largest membership-based food and drink research
centre in the world
CCFRA provide the range and quality of technical and support services
you would expect of a world class organisation. It undertakes research
and development for the many industries associated with agriculture,
food and drink manufacture, distribution, retailing and food service: in
essence those industries which together make up the food chain.
CCFRA employs 300 high calibre staff, including food scientists,
technologists and engineers.
CCFRA is an independent organisation and continues to invest in
technologies, skills and business management systems to the benefit
of the whole agri-food chain.
Campden & Chorleywood Food
Research Association Group
Chipping Campden,
Gloucestershire, GL55 6LD UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1386 842000
[email protected]
Fax: +44 (0) 1386 842100
www.campden.co.uk
ISO 9001:2000
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July 2007