The general labelling obligation for surface treatment agents for fruit and vegetables in Germany was published without taking into account objections from the trade associations.
Up-to-date information on changes to MRLs will be compiled here following their publication. However, we do not announce any EU projects of this kind.
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 new guidelines for allergens in food, Nutri-Score labeling and EU monitoring on the use of additives and flavorings.
Ethanol is an important industrial chemical. It can be produced by chemical synthesis or, as it has been for thousands of years, by alcoholic fermentation using special yeasts that grow on carbohydrate-rich media. AGROLAB Dr. Verwey is one of the leading laboratories for technical alcohol analysis.
A couple of new analytical packages for the monitoring of veterinary drug residues in eggs, meat and dairy products have been established recently. Get more details in the article itself.
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.
With Regulation (EU) 2021/726 of 4 May 2021, the EU Commission shortened the approval period for the active substance flutriafol, as no extension application was submitted.
The authorisation for the use of the active substance alpha-Cypermethrin has expired. Residual stocks must be used up by 12/07/2022.
The approval for the following chemical agents was extended:
Attentive RADAR readers have already noticed: in the EU Rapid Alert System (RASFF), Salmonella and Campylobacter alerts in poultry products represent a high proportion.
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 new guidelines for allergens in food, Nutri-Score labeling and EU monitoring on the use of additives and flavorings.
Purines are organic compounds and in the form of the purine bases adenine and guanine, they are important building blocks of DNA. Purines are mainly ingested in animal foods. However they are also found in pulses.
In addition to the total arsenic content, AGROLAB LUFA now also determines the proportion of free, inorganic arsenic in foodstuffs, food supplements and also animal feed.
Metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury are important environmental pollutants, particularly in areas with high anthropogenic pressure. Their presence, even in traces can cause serious problems to all organisms, thus heavy metal bioaccumulation in the food chain especially can be highly dangerous to human health.
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids and tropane alkaloids are secondary plant constituents that are undesirable in food and feed due to their harmful potential.
For years, sulfur dioxide and sulphites have been used as an effective additive to improve the preservation of multiple foods: beverages, preserves, sausages, dried fruit, fish and shellfish, biscuits, among others.
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.