Taste and Odour challenges and the world's most sensitive detector

Kathy Ridgway (Anatune)

Dr Kathy Ridgway has over 25 year's laboratory experience as an analytical chemist. She started her career doing pesticide residue analysis, before moving on to work on a wide range of food contaminants at Unilever Research. During this time, she completed a PhD at the University of Loughborough focussed on alternative extraction techniques. Following over 10 years at Unilever, she worked as a technical specialist in Taints and off-flavours at Reading Scientific services limited (RSSL). She now works as an Applications Chemist at Anatune on automation of sample preparation protocols and alternative extraction techniques.She has published several papers, contributed to several book chapters, written magazine articles and presented her work at international conferences.