For the upcoming 3 years the proposal for the coordinated control programme of the European Union to ensure compliance with maximum residue levels of pesticides and to assess the consumer exposure to pesticide residues in and on food of plant and animal origin, has been presented to the member states and stakeholders.kind.
Marketing standards are rules describing the quality of products that are marketed to consumers. For agricultural products e.g. fruit and vegetables they define uniform trade characteristics with respect to freshness or size classification, presentation, labelling, packaging etc.
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.
...is the conclusion of a PwC study that has just been published. According to the study, 90% of consumers occasionally and 37% regularly buy organic products.
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The food notes are about new guidelines for allergens in food, Nutri-Score labeling and EU monitoring on the use of additives and flavorings.
Our laboratory AGROLAB LUFA GmbH successfully expanded its portfolio for the analysis of genetically modified organisms (GMO). From now on, 15 genetically modified soy plants permitted for import and processing in the European Union (EU) can be detected and also quantified.
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.
Insecticidal active ingredient alpha-cypermethrin may soon no longer be used.
The approval for the following chemical active ingredients was extended in the Implementing Regulation 2021/52 (EU) of January 22, 2021:
AESAN has published a Guideline for the verification of Listeria monocytogenes sampling in work areas and equipment used in the production of ready-to-eat foods.
The Nutri-Score, which has just been accepted in many European countries, determines the nutritional value of a product and displays it in a simplified way using a colour code from green to red. Now another new front-of-pack label has been introduced in France - the EcoScore.
Process contaminants are not naturally present in food: The processes of baking, frying, grilling can induce the presence of undeserved substances harmful to human health in food.od expected this year.
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 revision of the qs guidelines, antibiotics in veterinary medicine, Guidance for date marking, IT Tool food labeling and some more
Here you find a retrospective monthly summary of relevant notifications about MRLs exceeded reported in the European Rapid Alert System (RASFF) supplemented with 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 EU Commission has shortened the approval period of several active substances with Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/856, as we have reported. Here is a note on cyanotraniliprole from the small print.
Authorisations for the following chemical active substances have been extended in the implementing regulation (EU) 2020/2007 of 8 December 2020:
The authorisation for the use of the active substance Mancozeb has expired. Residual stocks must be used up by 04.01.2022.