Milena Oleksiuk is an accomplished Quality and Health & Safety Assurance Manager with over 20 years of experience in food testing, research and development laboratories. She brings extensive expertise in ISO systems, with a strong track record of leading the development, implementation and maintenance of robust quality and safety frameworks. Milena is a certified Lead Auditor, known for her hands-on approach to problem-solving and her ability to drive continuous improvement across complex operational environments. Her work focuses on enhancing processes, ensuring compliance and delivering high standards of quality and safety throughout all stages of production and testing. With a passion for process development and operational excellence, Milena plays a key role in strengthening organizational performance and fostering a culture of accountability and innovation.

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Jo has over 20 years food science experience working within FMCG companies and research institutions. Jo has expertise in Cereal Science and Ingredient Functionality. Jo leads a specialist team of Microscopists, with expertise in Investigation Microscopy, Foreign Bodies, and Issue Resolution. The team offer an unrivalled service for Foreign Body Investigations currently offering 32 methods accredited by UKAS to the ISO 17025 standard.

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Harriet is an experienced microscopist and foreign body expert, with strong problem solving skills and a specialist in investigative microscopy for the food production industry. Helping customers understand the effects of ingredients and processing on product structure and their relationship with product texture and appearance attributes, aiding product development and helping to troubleshoot issues. Harriet is also a Fellow of The Royal Microscopical Society.

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Lee is the Section Leader for Chemistry, bringing over 20 years of experience as an analytical chemist across both the food and pharmaceutical sectors. Her extensive background includes specialist expertise in investigative chemical analysis, supporting customers by diagnosing and resolving complex manufacturing issues. Lee also has vast experience in method development and validation within regulated laboratory environments, ensuring robust, and compliant analytical solutions.

Alan has worked in industry since 2010 across the pharmaceutical and FMCG sectors, specialising in impurities identification and packaging analysis. He holds a degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry, bringing extensive expertise in LC and GC techniques spanning routine analysis, method development, validation and investigative studies.

Alan currently leads the Contaminants team, supporting process-contaminant testing within the food production sector and driving robust analytical standards. He combines strong technical leadership with a clear focus on product safety, quality and regulatory compliance.

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Warren leads our extensive nutrition team, as well as labelling and minerals. With over 25 years of experience within food analytical chemistry, 20 of these years within the PAS team. Warren is the PAS expert in ensuring compliance requirements for nutrition testing are met for both UK/EU products and overseas markets. Warren has extensive experience in method development with PAS specifically focussing on HPLC, GCMS and ICP-OES amongst others.

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Gethin has over 20 years of experience within research microbiology, with 16 years of these within PAS supporting the food industry. Gethin leads a team of specialist microbiologists who conduct bespoke and tailored testing programmes in response to product issues, NPD and manufacturing process issues as well as designing proactive shelf life testing experiments for products throughout chilled, frozen, ambient and fresh produce categories. Gethin holds numerous degrees and qualifications in Microbiology as well as being member of the IFST.

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Ijaz has over 23 years’ experience within the mycotoxin team and has recently taken on the role of Head of Mycotoxins. The team specialises in testing food products for the presence of mycotoxins, ensuring compliance with both UK and EU requirements. Ijaz has extensive experience in method development, with a particular focus on HPLC, GCMS and LCMS-MS.