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Since 1986 Chris has been active in research related to veterinary drug residue analysis and specialised in using immunochemical based screening technologies. The research has widened to include a wider range of toxic chemicals in foods and agricultural commodities such as mycotoxins, phycotoxins and plant toxins. The technologies platforms researched have also increased to include many forms of biosensor and lateral flow techniques. He has published more than 300 papers in the field of detection and control of chemical contaminants in agri-food commodities and co-ordinated one of the world's largest research project in this area (www.BioCop.org). Chris also co-ordinated another major EU research project QSAFFE which is dealt with contaminant issues along the animal feed supply chain.
Chris led the UK government's independent review of food systems following the 2013 Horsemeat scandal.
He is currently funded on a range of grants from BBSRC, ERSC, FP7, safefood and SFI-DEL
The ability to provide safer food for consumers by the use of state-of-the-art monitoring tools is a major research driver. The power of these tools has helped to increase food safety while reducing the need to use out of date animal based bioassays.
More recently the concept of effect based bioanalysis has emerged as an important research theme. The ability to measure effect based proteomic and metabolomic biomarkers indicating exposure (animals and humans) to toxic compounds is a major research driver.
Professor Elliott is also the Director of the ASSET Technology Centre. This centre of excellence was set up in 2009 with a £1.75M investment from The Department of Learning in Northern Ireland. ASSET has established multiple collaborations with technology providers across the world and recieved a furter £1M funding in 2013 along with becoming a Water's Corporation Centre of Innovation. The ability of these platforms to provide better, faster and lower cost means of early detection of contaminations across the entire food chain is one of the the driving forces of the centre. Another key research topic is that linked to the ability to detect food fraud using these emerging technologies. Many collaborations with agri-food companies have been established across the centre.
Chris is also co-ordinator of two Island of Ireland research networks (biotoxins and chemicals). The objective of the networks is to link researchers, regulators and industry to discuss the important topics pertaining to major food safety issues. Further details can be found here.
Professor Elliott is also one of the co-founding members of the International Drug Residue School (SARAF) based in Nante in France. From humble beginnings this initiative has flourished to become a recognised training centre for scientists all over the world.
Chris is currently the Director of the Institute for Global Food Safety.
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A plasmonic biosensor array exploiting plasmon coupling between gold nanorods and spheres for domoic acid detection via two methods
Neils, J. L. D., Salvador, J. P., Marco, M. P., Elliott, C. T. & Campbell, K., 05 May 2021, In: SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Assessing differences in levels of food trust between European countries
Murphy, B., Benson, T., Lavelle, F., Elliott, C. & Dean, M., Feb 2021, In: Food Control. 120, 7 p., 107561.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Food environment intervention improves food knowledge, wellbeing and dietary habits in primary school children: Project Daire, a randomised-controlled, factorial design cluster trial
Brennan, S. F., Lavelle, F., Moore, S. E., Dean, M., McKinley, M. C., McCole, P., Hunter, R. F., Dunne, L., O'Connell, N. E., Cardwell, C. R., Elliott, C. T., McCarthy, D. & Woodside, J. V., 04 Feb 2021, In: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 18, 18 p., 23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Garlic adulteration detection using NIR and FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics
Galvin-King, P., Haughey, S. & Elliott, C., 01 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 96, 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Highly sensitive electrochemical detection of the marine toxins okadaic acid and domoic acid with carbon black modified screen printed electrodes
Neils, J. L. D., Migliorelli, D., Muhlebach, L., Generelli, S., Stewart, L., Elliott, C. T. & Campbell, K., 01 Jun 2021, In: Talanta. 228, 9 p., 122215.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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BBC Food and Farming Winner
Elliott, Christopher (Recipient), 01 Dec 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Outstanding Contribution to the Northern Ireland Food Industry
Elliott, Christopher (Recipient), 01 Aug 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Theophilus Redwood Award
Elliott, Christopher (Recipient), 01 Jun 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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KTP Devenish Nutrition
Christopher Elliott (Consultant), Peter Kilpatrick (Consultant) & Ivor Spence (Consultant)
2019 → 2021Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind
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KTP with Linden Foods Ltd (PI)
Desmond Greer (Advisor), Christopher Elliott (Contributor) & Ivor Spence (Participant)
01 Aug 2019Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind
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ASSET 2018 - Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity
Amanda Naaum (Participant), Sarah Helyar (Participant) & Christopher Elliott (Participant)
28 May 2018 → 31 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Licence agreement for use of Okadaic acid antibody
Linda Stewart (Contributor) & Christopher Elliott (Advisor)
2017 → …Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind
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The Size and Aggregation State of Gold Nanoparticles (AuNPs) and its Correlation with Peroxidase-like Activity for the Development of a Dual Colorimetric Assay
Natasha Logan (Presenter), Claire McVey (Presenter), Huiyu Zhou (Advisor), Christopher Elliott (Advisor) & Cuong Cao (Advisor)
11 Jul 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Impact
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Protecting the Integrity of the Global Feed-food Supply Chain: Detecting and Preventing Chemical Contamination
Christopher Elliott (Participant)
Impact: Health Impact, Economic Impact