Food News
Regulation (EU) 2025/99 and Regulation (EU) 2025/150 extended the authorisation of 18 chemical and 7 biological plant protection products.
Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs for fruit and vegetables will be compiled here following their publication. However, we do not announce any EU projects of this kind.
Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 regulates the frequency of official controls on the import of certain foodstuffs into the EU. With the current amending Regulation (EU) 2024/3153 valid from 01/08/25, various adjustments to the control plan were published.
You have a sophisticated risk management system and you regularly have your products tested for contaminants and microbiological safety, and yet it has happened: you have placed a food on the market that is unsafe. What now?
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in laboratory AGROLAB LUFA (Kiel, Germany).
The Chemical and Veterinary Inspection Office (CVUA) Sigmaringen (D) tested almost 3,900 food samples for the trichothecene mycotoxins T-2 and HT-2 between 2016 and 2024 and has now published a report on the results.
BASF's ‘Food and Health Performance Ingredients’ division produces plant-based ingredients and emulsifiers for the food industry.
The members of the two dairy cooperatives still have to accept the proposal, and the antitrust authorities must also give their approval, because the merger would create a real ‘super-cooperative’.
Hier finden Sie Kurznachrichten aus dem Lebensmittelsektor.
Here you will find news in brief from the food sector.
At the end of November 2024, we attended the Food Supplements Forum and took away many valuable insights into current topics such as maximum levels for vitamins and minerals, green claims & sustainability, novel foods and omega-3 deficiency. The exchange between participants on key issues in the field of food supplements was informative and shaped the dialogue.
Our laboratory AGROLAB BELAN has successfully implemented the determination of melatonin in food supplements.
Here we provide you with a monthly retrospective and selective summary of relevant reports from the European rapid alert system RASFF.
On 1 January 2025, the marketing standards for fresh fruit and vegetables have been adjusted. The relevant industry associations are very concerned about the regulation.
What hardly anyone knows: radish leaves can be eaten! For example, in mixed salads, herb dips or soups.
The assessment values serve as a guide for official German laboratories to decide, in the absence of ‘threshold values’, whether labelling in the list of ingredients appears necessary for a food.
Zoonoses (more precisely zooanthroponoses) are infectious diseases that are transmitted to humans by pathogens through the consumption of animal products.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in laboratory AGROLAB LUFA (Kiel, Germany).
In this section we repeated alert notices from the RASFF system of the European commission issued in the previous month, which we thought to be noteworthy and of interest to our client.
Hier finden Sie Kurznachrichten aus dem Lebensmittelsektor.
Here you will find news in brief from the food sector.
On 20 November 2024, the new Regulation (EU) 2024/2895 was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. It sets new requirements for microbiological criteria for Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods that may support the growth of these bacteria.
As announced in November, we asked our colleague Dr Frank Mörsberger (Business Development Food & Feed Analysis) to summarise his personal impressions of the 11th RAFA conference in Prague for you. Here is his report:

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