Christopher Elliott

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Research Interests

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 The power of these tools has helped to increase food safety while reducing the need to use out of date animal based bioassays.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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Projects

18 Finished
36 Active

R6631GFS: The training of early stage researchers for the development of technologies to monitor concentrations of micro and nanoplastics in water for their presence, uptake and threat to animal and human life

Elliott, C. & Cao, C.

23/10/2019 → …

Project: Research

S2466CSC: KTP/Linden Foods Ltd

Elliott, C., Greer, D. & Spence, I.

01/08/2019 → …

Project: ktp

R1980GFS: Detecting Rice Fraud in the Developing World

Elliott, C.

24/10/2018 → …

Project: Research

S2459BSC: KTP/ Cranswick Country Foods (Ballymena)

Elliott, C.

01/08/2018 → …

Project: ktp

S2449CSC: KTP/ Devenish Nutrition

Elliott, C., Kilpatrick, P. & Spence, I.

01/08/2018 → …

Project: ktp

Research Output

Amalgamated gold-nanoalloys with enhanced catalytic activity for the detection of mercury ions (Hg2+) in seawater samples

Logan, N., McVey, C., Elliott, C. & Cao, C., 14 Mar 2020, In : Nano Research.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

7 Downloads (Pure)

Cocoa bean and cocoa bean products quality evaluation by NIR spectroscopy and chemometrics: A review

Teye, E., Anyidoho, E., Agbemafle, R., Sam-Amoah, L. K. & Elliott, C., 01 Jan 2020, In : Infrared Physics and Technology. 104, 9 p., 103127.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Smartphone Modulated Colorimetric Reader with Color Subtraction

Zhao, Y., Choi, S. Y., Lou-Franco, J., Neils, J. L. D., Zhou, H., Cao, C., Campbell, K., Elliott, C. & Rafferty, K., 13 Jan 2020, IEEE Sensors 2019 Conference: Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 4 p. 8956565. (Proceedings of IEEE Sensors; vol. 2019-October).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

File

1 Citation (Scopus)

61 Downloads (Pure)

A Review of the In Vivo Evidence Investigating the Role of Nitrite Exposure from Processed Meat Consumption in the Development of Colorectal Cancer

Crowe, W., Elliott, C. T. & Green, B. D., 05 Nov 2019, In : Nutrients. 11, 11, 17 p., 2673.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Open Access

File

1 Citation (Scopus)

50 Downloads (Pure)

Comparative In Vitro Assessment of a Range of Commercial Feed Additives with Multiple Mycotoxin Binding Claims

Kolawole, O., Meneely, J., Greer, B., Chevallier, O., Jones, D. S., Connolly, L. & Elliott, C., 12 Nov 2019, In : Toxins. 11, 11, 14 p., 659.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

43 Downloads (Pure)

Activities

3 KTP & Consultancy in kind
2 Oral presentation
1 Research and Teaching at External Organisation

KTP with Linden Foods Ltd (PI)

Desmond Greer (Advisor), Christopher Elliott (Contributor), Ivor Spence (Participant)

01 Aug 2019

Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind

KTP Devenish Nutrition

Christopher Elliott (Consultant), Peter Kilpatrick (Consultant), Ivor Spence (Consultant)

2019 → 2021

Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind

ASSET 2018 - Belfast Summit on Global Food Integrity

Amanda Naaum (Participant), Sarah Helyar (Participant), Christopher Elliott (Participant)

28 May 2018 → 31 May 2018

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Licence agreement for use of Okadaic acid antibody

Linda Stewart (Contributor), Christopher Elliott (Advisor)

2017 → …

Activity: Consultancy types › KTP & Consultancy in kind

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 2017

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Impact

Protecting the Integrity of the Global Feed-food Supply Chain: Detecting and Preventing Chemical Contamination

Christopher Elliott (Participant)

Impact: Health Impact, Economic Impact