The concept for import controls at the EU's external borders has been changed and supplemented by so-called risk profiles. This leads to changes in the regular import controls for food from third countries into the EU.
In the spring of 2021, the German Consumer Organizations conducted a close examination of foods fortified with vitamin D and frequently found overdoses.(1)
Zoonoses are infectious diseases transmissible from animal to human and from human to animal. The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) warns, among other things, of Shiga toxin-forming E. coli (STEC).
The European Commission published the results of the first survey on the authenticity of herbs and spices launched by the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety and supported by the Joint Research Centre (JRC).
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 German food company Dr.Oetker has been defeated at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the last instance.
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The food notes are about European Agri-Food Fraud Network (FFN) report, Netherlands introduces NutriScore and many other exciting topics.
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.
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.
Do you have a „déjà vue“ with this headline? Then you belong to the regular and particularly attentive readers of AGAROLAB RADAR. In July we had already reported on this topic.
Mushroom lovers beware! Even 35 years after the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, elevated levels of caesium are still being measured in wild mushrooms in some regions.
Nowhere else in Italy people drink so much coffee as in the northern Italian port city.
According to a press release by the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), the quantities of antibiotics dispensed for veterinary applications increased slightly in 2020.
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 protocol of the EU member states experts meeting by July 13th on regulatory and technical aspects of the ethylene oxide (ETO) findings in food and feed has been published on Oct. 4th.
The EU Commission plans to revise the food labelling regulation as a measure against increasing food waste.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the QS quality seal, QS GmbH commissioned a representative consumer survey from the forsa institute.
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The food notes are about European Agri-Food Fraud Network (FFN) report, Netherlands introduces NutriScore and many other exciting topics.
AGROLAB LUFA's portfolio for the detection of animal species in the poultry sector has been expanded once again.
The warnings in connection with limit value violations for ethylene oxide/2-chloroethanol in the RASFF system are not coming to an end.