The founder - Ray Coker

Ray graduated with a PhD in Natural Products Chemistry from City University, London. He is a Chartered Chemist and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. From University he joined the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) latterly as Professor of Food Safety in the Food Management and Marketing Group. Over 30 years he became involved with the international management of food and feed safety, specialising in the control of mycotoxins.

He has advised many major global organisations including the Food and Agricultural Organisation, USAID, the World Health Organisation and the EU during which time he led a variety of international, multidisciplinary projects. Ray is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts in his field.

Ray has contributed over one hundred articles to learned journals, books and other specialist publications as well as attending international conferences in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America as an invited lecturer. He has eight granted patents or patent pending.

It was whilst he was working overseas for the NRI that Ray became aware of the need, and a gap in the market, for a simple but accurate method for measuring mycotoxins that could be used every day by people who were not trained scientists. 

Ray is now Emeritus Professor of Food Safety at the University of Greenwich and Chief Technology Officer of ToxiMet Limited.