Recent calls for project proposals to develop improved analytical
capability for food contaminants, including the European Commission’s
Framework 7 food safety initiatives, have recognised the
need to further harmonise analytical approaches to food chemical
safety. As the European Food Safety Authority and Member
State authorities consider the need to pro-actively address emerging
food safety issues, it is hoped that inter-laboratory activities to
develop enhanced analytical capability, reference materials and to
share best analytical practice [33,34] will continue to expand. As
a consequence of analytical expansion and the evolution of rapid,
multi-class methods with adequate uncertainty, sampling regimes
should evolve that accommodate increased numbers of discrete
samples and thus provide a better representation of true population
exposure.