Science for life

Fera is an applied science leader, helping clients tackle their most complex challenges through deep expertise and trusted partnership.

Sustainable futures

We anticipate tomorrow’s challenges and create innovative solutions that help businesses and communities thrive in a changing world.

Scientific credibility

We bring world-class expertise and rigorous standards, giving clients the confidence that every decision is backed by trusted science.

Real-world impact

We don’t just generate knowledge — we apply it. Our science delivers clarity, solutions and advantage that organisations can put into practice today.

Trusted partnerships

We work side by side with our partners, building long-term relationships founded on trust, collaboration and shared ambition.

Horizon Scan

HorizonScan is more than a risk management platform - it’s a cost-saving, efficiency-boosting, and reputation-protecting solution that delivers measurable ROI. By preventing product recalls, saving employee time, identifying emerging risks, and ensuring compliance, HorizonScan helps businesses protect their bottom line while strengthening their supply chains.

Trusted worldwide for proficiency testing

Delivering over 1,000 proficiency tests every year across a wide range of matrices and analytes, Fapas helps laboratories verify performance, maintain accuracy and demonstrate confidence in their results.

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Driving progress through expertise

Our testing brings together broad capability and specialist depth, combining advanced methods with decades of applied science. From molecular diagnostics to environmental analysis, we turn complex evidence into clarity that supports innovation, safeguards reputation and drives long-term progress.

Testing & Analysis

Trusted across food, health and the environment, helping organisations protect people, ensure compliance and make confident decisions.

Consultancy and Advisory

We provide trusted advice across food, health and the environment, helping organisations protect people, ensure compliance and informing your decisions.

Knowledge and Data

Proprietary intelligence built from over a century of scientific data, structured, validated and ready to integrate into your decisions.

The power of science lies in the clarity it brings. We turn evidence into understanding, giving clients the confidence to act.

Active partnerships

1000+

We work with more than a thousand active partners worldwide. Together, we share knowledge, tackle challenges, and deliver impact.

Years of science

100

With a century of scientific excellence, we combine deep expertise and innovation to protect food, people, and the environment.

R&D projects

600+

Our scientists lead hundreds of R&D projects each year, driving forward new solutions that help businesses grow and stay resilient.

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The proof of our work lies in its impact. We empower clients to tackle their most complex challenges and deliver real-world change.

Tailored solutions for you and your business

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When conventional testing fails: identifying Maize Lethal Necrosis in Eastern Africa

Maize Lethal Necrosis was spreading through East African farms at alarming speed — but standard diagnostic methods kept returning negative results. Fera applied next generation sequencing to find out why.

Enhancing Vulnerability Assessments with Structured Intelligence

Through the implementation of HorizonScan, the organisation unlocked the capability to conduct precise, structured assessments across various parameters, such as risk categories, geographic regions, and specific hazards.

LAND360 in action: Castle Howard Estate

Castle Howard Estate in Yorkshire worked with Fera's LAND360 team to map the biodiversity and carbon footprint of its 9,000-acre mixed-use estate covering farmland, woodland and parkland. The project created the natural capital baseline the Estate needed to plan its long-term land management future.

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Insights and news

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Enigma V | Improving control of cabbage stem flea beetles on oil seed rape

Enigma I | Sustainable Wireworm IPM

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Fera acquires 3Keel to create end-to-end sustainability and science platform