AGROLAB LUFA in Kiel has introduced a new ELISA test for allergen detection of a possible Brazil nut content in food. Allergen labelling of packaged food is mandatory in the EU.
The presence of extraneous materials in food products analysed by the "filth test" allows detection and counting of solid impurities. The Hygiene Package of The European Community’s food and feed hygiene legislation, which came into effect across all Member States from 1th January 2006, revises and consolidates legislation in relation to food and feed hygiene.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.
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 clients.
The EU Commission recommended a monitoring programme for mercury in order to be able to estimate the exposure of the population when eating fish and marine animals. Both wild-caught and aquacultured animals are to be examined.
The revision extends existing maximum levels to further animal foodstuffs that were not previously listed in the Regulation. The maximum levels for dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs for sheep meat are now also applied to goat meat.
The results of the Max-Rubner-Institute (MRI) for Cereal Safety and Quality on the mycotoxin contamination of the 2022 cereal harvest are available. While no major abnormalities were found in the 1500 wheat samples submitted for DON and ZEA, the 680 rye samples look poorer this year compared to last year with regard to ergot contamination.
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The food notes are about the mercury monitoring 2022, MRL proposals for veterinary drugs and other topics.
Finally, the 10th "Recent Advances in Food Analysis" (RAFA) conference was held in Prague.
In addition to the microbiological risks posed by human pathogenic bacteria, fungi and spoilage agents, increasing attention must also be paid to viruses in matters of food hygiene and consumer protection.
AGROLAB LUFA's range of services in the field of detection of genetically modified organisms in soya and Canola has been supplemented by further events.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.
The use of the active ingredient penflufen is now only permitted for treating cereal seed.
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 clients.
Get curious with informative food industry headlines from all over Europe - in many languages ...
The food notes are about the mercury monitoring 2022, MRL proposals for veterinary drugs and other topics.
The "total milk" allergen test detects the two typical allergenic milk proteins ß-lactoglobulin and casein together.
Growing concern about antibiotic resistance 'forces' the extension of the search for pharmacologically active molecules also in eggs.
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented about remarkable results found in our own laboratories in residue analysis.
Here we present a retrospective monthly summary of remarkable results from the residue analysis in fruit & vegetable performed in our own laboratories.